The Promise by Damon Galgut a time-wasting level

a time-wasting level

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The Promise by Damon Galgut a time-wasting levelThe 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