Bitter Fruit - Softcover

Dangor, Achmat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002005964 ISBN 13: 9780002005968

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

THE LAST TIME Silas Ali encountered the lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was viciously raping Lydia, Silas’s wife. But a chance encounter twenty years later brings crimes from the past crashing into the present, shattering the fragile shell of normalcy that defines the Alis’ family life. Bitter Fruit is the story of Silas, Lydia and their circle of friends and family living in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also the story of their son Mikey, a child of “the new South Africa,” a young man whose own identity crisis, sexual adventuring and murderous search for his biological father are about to explode.

With Bitter Fruit, Achmat Dangor ventures into territory no other South African writer has entered. The bitter fruits of apartheid rape, incest, murder are revealed in a riveting narrative that addresses the dynamic politics of race, history and the new elite in the context of contemporary times. But the novel is also a universal portrait of a modern family struggling to live in a dysfunctional society. By turns harrowing, erotic and fearlessly satirical, Bitter Fruit confirms the literary reputation of a gifted novelist.

About this title

About the Author:

ACHMAT DANGOR was born in Johannesburg in 1948, the year theNationalist Party, the architects of apartheid, won power. Winner of manyliterary prizes, including the 1998 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for Kafka’sCurse, he is the author of three collections of poetry, a novella andshort story collection, and a novel. He currently lives with his wife in Geneva.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0002005964
• ISBN 13: 9780002005968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 281