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3: 'The dead don't want anything.'

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2021's Booker Prize-winning novel charts the crash and burn of the Swarts, a white South African family living outside Pretoria. Today: things come to a head after Ma's funeral...

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 family, land and a promise, set against a changing South Africa.

Today: things come to a head after Ma's funeral, when the younger generation question the loyalties and choices of their elders...
Reader: Jack Klaff
Writer: Damon Galgut
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

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Wed 6 Apr 2022 22:45
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  • Wed 6 Apr 2022 22:45
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