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Bitter Fruit: A Novel
by Dangor, Achmat
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- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0802170064
- ISBN 13
- 9780802170064
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Black Cat March 10, 2004 First American Edition. 0. Softcover. 8vo softcover 288pp very good. French flaps, rough page edges. Early in Dangor's embittered second novel about his native South Africa, aloof, independent 19-year-old Mikey comes to the realization that "history has a remembering process of its own, one that gives life to its imaginary monsters." This understanding of the past informs the thoughts and actions of the characters, which the author of Kafka's Curse explores in meticulous detail. Mikey's parents, Silas and Lydia Ali, are members of the black middle class in postapartheid South Africa. But when Silas, a lawyer for the Justice Department, encounters the white police lieutenant who raped his wife two decades before, old wounds open in his and Lydia's already strained marriage. Mikey discovers that he may be the product of his mother's violation and sets out to explore his familial roots, taking a type of "apartheid heritage route" that leads him to Silas's father's mosque. Here, he learns of his grandfather's own struggle with colonialism in India a generation earlier. Dangor's novel, a Man Booker Prize finalist, interrogates the forgiving attitude of people like Archbishop Tutu, and, as Silas puts it, "the namby-pambying of God's ferocious legions." In this environment, where even incestuous transgressions can be rationalized away, Mikey finds vengeance as a way to order the decayed social structures around him. .
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- Bookseller
- Dial a Book (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41126
- Title
- Bitter Fruit: A Novel
- Author
- Dangor, Achmat
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802170064
- ISBN 13
- 9780802170064
- Publisher
- Black Cat March 10, 2004 First American Edition
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2005-03
- Keywords
- man booker long list 2004 mightlike multiracial south africa torment Bitter Fruit A Novel Dangor Achmat
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