6/12/2023 0 Comments Damon galgut the promise review![]() ![]() In a description of a man being hit by a stone thrown at him, the narratorĮnters the man’s mind mid-sentence and switches to first person: “What wasn’t weightless is the stone that The third-person narrator flows through the consciousness of characters, Novel immediately gets the reader’s attention. (Ironically, Swart in Afrikaans means Black.) The four funerals coincide with an important Sections (spring of 1986, winter of 1995, autumn of 2004, and summer of 2018),Įach including the death of a Swart family member. Ignores his promise and Amor faces objections from her older siblings, Astrid Her husband Manie to make Salome, their black domestic servant, owner of the Her 13-year-old daughter Amor overhears Rachel extracting a promise from Various members of a white Afrikaans family living on a farm near Nominated for the Booker Prize and this book is the 2021 winner of that First encounter with this South African writer, two of his previous novels were ![]()
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