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The Promise by Damon Galgut

The Promise

by Damon Galgut
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  • First Published:
  • Apr 6, 2021, 256 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Mar 2022, 272 pages
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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?
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Beyond the Book:
  Apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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