The 2021 Man Booker Prize-winning novel. A story of indignation, renewal and hope. 1986. The head of the Swart family promises his dying wife that their maid Salome, “inherited to their family along with the farm,” will receive the house in which she lives as a reward for her long service. After the funeral, this conversation is quickly forgotten, etched into the memory only of a random witness - Amor, the youngest daughter of the Svarts. But what can a child do? Decades pass, generations change, the family slowly falls apart, but will anyone ever fulfill the promise they once made? “A personal drama that has the power of an ancient myth.” – Wall Street Journal “A searing story of a fractured family and a troubled country in need of healing.” – Publishers Weekly “Galgut's novel has a lot of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner in it. His curious storytelling turns a fatal family parable into a profound meditation." – The New Yorker