![]() ![]() Although most of that material is background, it conjures a sense of time passing, and of the larger country changing too,” he stated. ![]() The book is structured around four funerals, each in a different decade, with a different president in power and a different spirit reigning over the land. But what makes them ‘representative’ isn’t their characters, it’s the times they’re living through. They’re a mix of English and Afrikaans, and a hodge-podge of creeds and beliefs too. “The Swart family is a kind of amalgamation of everything I grew up with in Pretoria, I guess. In an interview with the Booker Prize, the author reflected that the characters came from people he grew up with. The Promise is Galmut’s ninth novel, one that he wrote after seven years. ALSO READ | South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ ![]()
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