![]() Galgut’s ironically named Swart family are, like Faulkner’s Compsons, desperate to keep their generations-held property (a farm outside Pretoria) and the sense of power that ownership gives them. Very late in the novel, Galgut quotes “tomorrow and tomorrow,” the words in Macbeth that precede life “is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.” Those who have read Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury will already have noticed the parallels between Faulkner’s novel about a decaying white family in the American South early in the twentieth century and Galgut’s story about a dying Afrikaner family in South Africa during the last forty years. ![]() The book was published in the United States in the Spring and received little attention, but American readers may well have a particular interest in The Promise. Last month the South African writer Damon Galgut won the British Booker Prize for The Promise, a novel set in South Africa. ![]()
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