The Promise – Damon Galgut dystopian Simon is another matter

Simon is another matter

Prepare to fall head over heels for Ford Grant and the magic of Rose Hill

memory and forgetting

She quickly wins over Anouk

and then aim single-mindedly at that

The Promise – Damon Galgut dystopian Simon is another matterWinner of the 2021 Booker Prize, The Promise is a towering family saga set against the sweep of post apartheid South Africa intimate, incisive, and impossible to forget. The Swart family gathers on their farm outside Pretoria for their mother's funeral. The younger generation Anton and Amor detest everything the family stands for, not least the broken promise made to Salome, the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. She was promised her