Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
Category: Novel
Narrator: Tug Yourgrau
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature
With the publication of Kafkas Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africas political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there. The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silass wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husbands participation in Nelson Mandelas African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance 20 years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydias son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents pasts. A harrowing story of a brit
