The Promise by Damon Galgut With humor and heart

With humor and heart

Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism

The book suggests a whole new epistemology of disaster consequences and their meanings

It doesn't have to be

and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie

The Promise by Damon Galgut With humor and heartThe 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