Bitter Fruit

"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.

Set in

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  Johannesburg · South Africa

  Post-apartheid Johannesburg in 1998 where the Dladla family confronts its TRC-era past
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  Cape Town · South Africa

  Post-apartheid Cape Town 1998; site of the Ali family's unraveling as old TRC-era crimes resurface
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