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Name: The Promise
Rating: 5.0 (7 reviews)
Author: Damon Galgut
ISBN: 9781609456580

The Promise

by Damon Galgut

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First Published:
Apr 6, 2021, 256 pages

Paperback:
Mar 2022, 272 pages

Book Reviewed by:
Kim Kovacs
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- Literary Fiction
- Africa
- Middle & Southern Africa
- 1980s & '90s
- Contemporary
- Generational Sagas
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Kaz

Same old same old

I understand the issues for both black and white people's in South Africa. Trauma, violence, financial hardship lies and cruelty. This story has been done to death. It is an average writing style and again like "In a Strange Room" extremely depressing.
Maybe this was the intention?

Beyond the Book:
Apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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