This paper analyzes the aspects of life, death, and religion in a post-apartheid society, focusing on Damon Galgut’s The Promise, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. Based on an Afrikaner family settled in the Pretoria of South Africa, the protagonist, Amor, heeds his mother’s dying promise to give her maid, Salome, the house in which Salome is currently staying with her son. However, her family defies her mother who had converted to Judaism before her death and dismisses her wish as null and void, exposing the hypocrisy and greed of Dutch Reformed Christianity. Some argue against Amor’s insistence that the family must keep her mother’s promise, asserting that South African law prohibits Black people from owning a white person’s house. Recognizing that she cannot escape a situation where racial discrimination and religious conflict remain inherent, Amor pays the price to Salome in accordance with her convictions, following the tragic deaths of her older sister and brother.