The Promise

In structure and style, in the uncompromising & occasionally sardonic immediacy with which the narrative voice observes/inhabits the moral corruption and guilt of a white South African family from the 1980s to the present, in the way it evokes and wholly envelopes a reader in the particularities of a landscape and a history, “The Promise” reminded me of my favorite Faulkner novels. And I can really offer no higher praise than that.