As the country is in the death throes of Apartheid, defiantly buckling under the weight of an international boycott, a Jewish woman named Rachel Swart, mother of three and wife to farmer Herman ‘Manie’ Swart, dies of an unnamed disease. We recommend that you check with your local customs officials or post office for more information regarding importation taxes/duties that may be applicable to your online order as this changes country to country.South Africa, 1987. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. If you are ordering goods for delivery outside of the UK, please note that your consignment may be subject to import duties and taxes, which are levied once the goods reach the country of destination.Īny such charges levied in relation to customs clearance must be paid by you. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.
Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. ‘The most important book of the last ten years’ Edmund White In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home.Ĭonfident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel’s title. The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams deliciously lethal in its observation.
The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for – not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life.Īfter years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land… yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled. The Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Discover the Booker Prize-winning literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.
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