Bitter fruit
By: Achmat Dangor
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781843542643
Subjects: Politics and government; Gender identity; Race awareness; Fiction
Description: "The last time Silas Ali encountered the Lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Lydia, his wife. When Silas sees him again, by chance, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Ali's fragile family life." "Bitter Fruit is the story of Silas, Mikey, and Lydia, a brittle family in a dysfunctional society. By turns harrowing, erotic and fearlessly satirical, it is a portrait of modern South Africa that also address questions of universal significance."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: Cape Town: Kwela, 2001; London: Atlantic, 2003.