2: 'Better ask my father.'
2021's Booker Prize-winner, charting the decline and fall of a white South African family, Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the tale of a family, land and a promise.
2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. Told over four decades and four funerals, it is the story of three siblings, of land and of a promise, set against a changing South Africa.
Today: after Ma's funeral, tensions mount among the Swart family...
Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut is a novelist who has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize, for The Good Doctor and In a Stranger Room. He lives and works in Cape Town
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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