The Promise Book

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The Promise Book. ‘the promise is an expansive family novel that explores the interconnected relationships between members of one family through the sequential lens of multiple funerals. Winner of the booker prize 2021 book reviews & author details and more at amazon.in.

The NLT Bible Promise Book by Amy E Mason; Ronald A Beers
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D amon galgut’s stunning new novel charts the decline of a white family during south africa’s transition out of apartheid. Death assumes here both a closing but also an opening into lives lived. As a white south african writer, galgut inherits a subject that must feel, at different times, liberating in its dimensions and imprisoning in its inescapability.

The NLT Bible Promise Book by Amy E Mason; Ronald A Beers

In death, decay, the stark materiality of bodily waste and mortal remains that simultaneously counters and grounds the disembodied drift of the narration. 3.85 · rating details · 1,835 ratings · 351 reviews. The moral heart of the story, amor swart, overhears her dying mother, rachel, cared for and nursed by her black maid, salome, extract a promise from her father that. **as heard on bbc radio 4 book at bedtime** 'a moving, brilliantly told family epic' elizabeth day 'superb' paula hawkins 'gripping' daily mail the sunday times bestseller _____ on a farm outside pretoria, the swarts are gathering for ma's funeral.