4: 'Nest of vipers.'
2021's Booker Prize-winner, charting the crash and burn of a white South African family, through four funerals. Today: the Swart children gather again after a bizarre accident.
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: the Swart children find themselves together again when their father is struck down by a snake bite...
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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