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A Man Booker Prize finalist. â[A] deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettableâ (Booklist, starred review).  With the publication of Kafkaâs 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 Africaâs political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there.  The last time Silas Ali encountered Lt. Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silasâs wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husbandâs participation in Nelson Mandelaâs African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance twenty years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alisâ fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydiaâs son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parentsâ pasts.  âIn the vein of J.M. Coetzeeâs novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans,â Bitter Fruit is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (Publishers Weekly).  âA haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing.â âThe Independent  âBitter Fruit has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa.â âThe Guardian |
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