The Promise, Damon GalgutThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. 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. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains

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and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations

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He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J’s Bar with the Rat

The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys—radio transmissions

Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion

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that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030

and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules

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With Drucker's career and life near an end

and since then I haven't had a drink