Monday, April 11, 2022

The Promise by Damon Galgut

How a girl differs from her family when it comes to the perception of truth.

Apart from anything else this one is all about patience and justice. It took long for Amor to circle back to the truth she believed in but it wins after all.

It goes into a lot of details for the characters to come out and portray them in a way which makes them all the more human. The greed, dishonesty, reluctance or even procrastination are very well represented. But the patience for truth to find its way is the most dominant one.

There were even some passages where you can doubt if the promise was actually made or just imagined. Because at times it is very much possible that your sense of justice creates a moral argument in favour of something which doesn't even exist. And later you are not interested in the conception, but you want to see the end of it.

Worth a read.

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