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4108317Bitter Fruithttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/bitter-fruit-9780802199713/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3697871/e23b815d-fcd6-4ecb-9c8d-dfc6419ebbba.jpg?v=638385744735330000161179MXNGrove AtlanticInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A Man Booker Prize finalist. [A] deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettable (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review).</strong></p><p>With the publication of <em>Kafkas Curse</em>, 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.</p><p>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 Silass wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husbands participation in Nelson Mandelas 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 Alis fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydias son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents pasts.</p><p>In the vein of J.M. Coetzees novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans, <em>Bitter Fruit</em> is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p><p>A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing. <em>The Independent</em></p><p><em>Bitter Fruit</em> has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa. <em>The Guardian</em></p>...4044189Bitter Fruit161179https://www.gandhi.com.mx/bitter-fruit-9780802199713/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3697871/e23b815d-fcd6-4ecb-9c8d-dfc6419ebbba.jpg?v=638385744735330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20079780802199713_W3siaWQiOiJkYzhmZWRmZC00MDU0LTRkY2MtYmUyMy1lZWZmNjQwMDFmOGMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE3OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE2MSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDRUMDM6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780802199713_<p><strong>A Man Booker Prize finalist. A deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettable (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review).</strong></p><p>With the publication of <em>Kafkas Curse</em>, 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.</p><p>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 Silass wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husbands participation in Nelson Mandelas 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 Alis fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydias son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents pasts.</p><p>In the vein of J.M. Coetzees novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans, <em>Bitter Fruit</em> is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p><p>A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing. <em>The Independent</em></p><p><em>Bitter Fruit</em> has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa. <em>The Guardian</em></p>...(*_*)9780802199713_<p><strong>A Man Booker Prize finalist. [A] deeply unsettling novel about the new South Africa . . . The people and their stories are unforgettable (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review).</strong></p><p>With the publication of <em>Kafkas Curse</em>, 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.</p><p>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 Silass wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husbands participation in Nelson Mandelas 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 Alis fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydias son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents pasts.</p><p>In the vein of J.M. Coetzees novels, but from the perspective of black South Africans, <em>Bitter Fruit</em> is a harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>).</p><p>A haunting story of a family disintegrating, wonderfully authentic . . . its progress like slow dancing. <em>The Independent</em></p><p><em>Bitter Fruit</em> has a shocking ability to surprise the reader with the persistence of racial feeling in South Africa. <em>The Guardian</em></p>...9780802199713_Grove Atlanticlibro_electonico_f33b6f49-fd2a-31e8-b1d6-001fa759a9cd_9780802199713;9780802199713_9780802199713Achmat DangorInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-0193360e-5d32-49c5-975c-426a0197aeba.epub2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00Grove Atlantic