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Bitter Fruit

Achmat Dangor

  • 281 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 5 editions
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1 About this book

Bitter Fruit is a novel by Achmat Dangor first published in 2001 by Kwela Books of Cape Town. Set in South Africa in 1998, it is about the disintegration of a Coloured family in the years after the end of apartheid.

According to Gabriel Gbadamosi's review in The Guardian, "All the bases are touched in a reckoning with South Africa's past and present turmoil, and no box left unopened in the search for some kind of limbo or twilight zone where all unresolved conflicts might find resolution."

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Politics and government
  • Political activists
  • Political
  • Johannesburg (south africa)
  • South African fiction
  • Racially mixed people
  • Gender identity
  • Married people

2 About Achmat Dangor

Born 1948

Achmat Dangor (2 October 1948 – 6 September 2020) was a South African writer, poet, and development professional. His most important works include the novels Kafka's Curse (1997) and Bitter Fruit (2001). He was also the author of three collections of poetry, a novella, and a short story collection. Dangor was born in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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