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Los Swart son una familia blanca que vive desde hace generaciones en una granja en las afueras de Pretoria, en Sudáfrica. Tras la muerte de la madre, se reúnen todos para el funeral en la casa familiar. Amor y Anton, dos de sus hijos, rechazan lo que la familia representa y no olvidan la promesa que su padre hizo a su madre poco antes de morir: que Salome, la mujer negra que lleva trabajando toda la vida para ellos y que la cuidó en sus últimos días, podría quedarse con la pequeña casa en la que siempre ha vivido. Pero el tiempo va pasando y la promesa no se cumple. La narración sigue los pasos de los Swart a lo largo de más de tres décadas; a través de la minuciosa exploración de los miembros de la familia y sus conflictos, Galgut nos habla también de los cambios políticos y sociales del país tras el fin de la segregación racial. La promesa, una originalísima y conmovedora novela ganadora del premio Booker 2021, está considerada como una de las grandes obras literarias en inglés de la última década.
Damon Galgut’s stunning new novel charts the decline of a white family during South Africa’s transition out of apartheid. It begins in 1986, with the death of Rachel, a 40-year-old Jewish mother of three on a smallholding outside Pretoria. The drama of the novel turns on a promise that her Afrikaner husband, Manie, made to her before she died, overheard by their youngest daughter, Amor: that Manie would give their black maid, Salome, the deeds to the annexe she occupies. Now that Rachel is dead, Manie has apparently forgotten and doesn’t care to be reminded. Nor does his bigoted family, who regard Amor’s stubborn insistence that Salome should own her home as the kind of talk that “now appears to have infected the whole country”. For three decades the South African writer Damon Galgut has been assessing his country through scrutiny of its white people. His prior novels include the Booker Prize finalist “The Good Doctor,” set at a clinic in one of apartheid’s forlorn “homelands,” and “The Impostor,” an account of a poet self-exiled to the lonely countryside. Galgut’s new work, “The Promise,” studies the Swart family, descendants of Voortrekker settlers, clinging to their farm amid tumultuous social and political change — “just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans,” he writes, “holding on, holding out.” Beginning in 1986, the novel moves toward the present, following Ma, Pa and the alliterative trio of Swart children: Anton, a military deserter and failed novelist; Astrid, a narcissistic housewife; and Amor, an introspective loner who eventually becomes a nurse. In scope, seriousness, and experimental ambition, modernist writing like {Virginia} Woolf’s sometimes appears to have expired along with its serious and experimental epoch, a moment when political and moral disenchantment was met by a belief in literature’s regenerative power. Yet Damon Galgut’s remarkable new novel, “The Promise” (Europa), suggests that the demands of history and the answering cry of the novel can still powerfully converge. As a white South African writer, Galgut inherits a subject that must feel, at different times, liberating in its dimensions and imprisoning in its inescapability. (J. M. Coetzee once argued that South African literature is a “literature in bondage,” because a “deformed and stunted” society produces a deformed and stunted inner life.) “The Promise” is drenched in South African history, a tide that can be seen, in the end, to poison all “promise.” The book moves from the dying days of apartheid, in the eighties, to the disappointment of Jacob Zuma’s Presidency of the past decade, and the tale is told as the fable of a family curse: first the mother dies, then the father, then one of their daughters, then their only son. Contenido enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
"Los Swart son una familia blanca que vive desde hace generaciones en una granja en las afueras de Pretoria, en Suda?frica. Tras la muerte de la madre, se reu?nen todos para el funeral en la casa familiar. Amor y Anton, dos de sus hijos, rechazan lo que la familia representa y no olvidan la promesa que su padre hizo a su madre poco antes de morir: que Salome, la mujer negra que lleva trabajando toda la vida para ellos y que la cuido? en sus u?ltimos di?as, podri?a quedarse con la pequen?a casa en la que siempre ha vivido. Pero el tiempo va pasando y la promesa no se cumple."--Amazon.
"La narracio?n sigue los pasos de los Swart a lo largo de ma?s de tres de?cadas; a trave?s de la minuciosa exploracio?n de los miembros de la familia y sus conflictos, Galgut nos habla tambie?n de los cambios poli?ticos y sociales del pai?s tras el fin de la segregacio?n racial."--Amazon.
"La promesa, una originali?sima y conmovedora novela ganadora del premio Booker 2021, esta? considerada como una de las grandes obras literarias en ingle?s de la u?ltima de?cada."--Amazon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.
The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title.
In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home.
Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.