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Discover the Booker Prize-shortlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis. 'stonishing' Colm Toibin The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a pharmaceutical out Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's safety. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest all the family stand for - not least the promise to the Black woman who has worked for them whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... still somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled. The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly inter characters, flying into them dreams; deliciously lethal in the observation. And as the country moves from old divisions to the new so-called fairer society, the loss promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title. In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at The finest. 'Gorgeous And pleasurable' Tessa Hadley 'The Most important book of the last ten years' Edmund White 'Simply: You must read it' Claire Messud Details product Paperback Format | 304 pages Dimensions 135 x 215 x 23mm | 306g Publication date Jun 17, 2021 Publishing Vintage Publisher Chatto & Windus Imprint Publication City/Country London,unit Kingdom Language English Isbn13 9781784744076