Promise

Roman Laureate of the Buker Prize 2021. The history of indignation, renewal and hope.

1986. The head of the welter family promises a dying wife that their maid Salome, “their family got along with the farm,” will receive the house in which he lives as a reward for a long service. After the funeral, this conversation is quickly forgotten, cutting into memory only a random witness - Amor, the youngest daughter of the welds. But what can a child do?
Decades have been held, generations are replaced, the family is slowly falling apart, but will anyone once have given this promise?

Personal drama with the power of an ancient myth. - Wall Street Journal

The burning story of a decaying family and a complex country in need of healing. - Publishers Weekly

“In the novel of Galgut there is a lot of Virginia Wulf and William Folkner. His curious manner of narrative turns a fatal family parable into deep meditation. ” - The New Yorker