Bitter Fruit

Bitter Fruit
Author(s): Achmat Dangor

Bitter Fruit

is the story of Silas Ali, his wife, Lydia, andtheir friends and family in postapartheid South Africa as they try to movebeyond a past that is both painful and unresolved. It is also the story of theirson, Mikey, a young man whose own identity crisis, sexual adventuring and searchfor his biological father are about to explode.

Achmat Dangor ventures into territory no other South Africanwriter has entered. The bitter fruits of apartheid—rape, incest, murder—arerevealed in a riveting, brilliant portrait of a modern family struggling to livein a dysfunctional society.

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ISBN:  9780006393719