THE PROMISE

By Damon Galgut

Synopsis

The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria. Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago and never kept....

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Narrator Peter Noble
Length 10hrs
Catalogue No. 15073
Publisher Penguin Audio; 2021
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