The Promise by Damon Galgut
The Promise By Damon Galgut Rating : 5/5 Genres : Hilarity, Fiction, Africa A White family and a black servant. The matron before death promises land to the servant which takes over three decades to attain fulfillment. Times have changed, people have changed but one thing remains the same. The promise made. I dont know what i like the most in this book..the humor? - yes, it is damm witty and spilling with sarcasm at every turn. Or the seriousness and death, loss that is sprinkled under the light weight detached humor? - there is a natural death,a murder, an accident and a suicide..he has covered all means of death possible and heaped them onto the heads of members of one family. One ungrateful family .. that clung to its property instead of honoring a promise its dame made to her servant on her death bed. Until the very end..when the only survivor of the family, an unusual woman/girl sacrifices all her ownings to appease a long serving and...