{"product_id":"the-promise-9781784744069","title":"The Promise","description":"\u003cp\u003eA masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut  Astonishing Colm Tibn  A literary masterpiece Sarah Hall  The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family  living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Mas funeral. The younger generation  Anton and Amor  detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service  Salome was promised her own house  her own land... yet somehow  as each decade passes  that promise remains unfulfilled.  The narrators 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 novels 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.  Gorgeous and pleasurable Tessa Hadley  The most important book of the last ten years Edmund White  Simply: you must read it Claire Messud\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648024240181,"sku":"ByrdShop_1784744069","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781784744069.jpg?v=1781706970","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-promise-9781784744069","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}