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01387aam a2200301 4500 001 34426692282911EDB3AB225246ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220830010055 008 220319s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1609457447 020 $a 9781609457440 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Galgut, Damon, $e author. 245 14 $a The promise. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y : $b Europa Editions, $c 2022. 300 $a 269 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family's Black maid. This promise will divide the family--especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their country of Sout Africa is haunted by its own failures. 541 $d 20220629. 650 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 $a Brothers and sisters $v Fiction. 650 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Funeral rites and ceremonies $v Fiction. 651 4 $a South African fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104020957.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230804010144.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20220830013604.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34426692282911EDB3AB225246ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search