THE PROMISE

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering f or Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise to t he Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... ye t somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.The narrator's eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between char acters, ...[Read more]