The Promise Capote eventful journey in search of

eventful journey in search of meaning in a world swept up in the post-revolutionary madness

With humor and tenderness

this selection of nursery poems

to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience

the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos

The Promise Capote eventful journey in search ofOn her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the familys Black maid. This promise will divide the familyespecially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their country is haunted by its own failures. The Promise is an epic