2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlist

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Bitter Fruit
General Information
	Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor Published by Atlantic Books UK Publication Date: 9/2/04
About the Author
	Achmat Dangor was born in October, 1948 in Johannesburg. He has devoted much of his life to politics, including heading up the Kagiso Trust, which, when created, was the largest black–led foundation in South Africa. He was formally Executive Director of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, and is currently Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). He will soon relocate from New York to Geneva, Switzerland.
Publisher's Comments	The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on his wife Lydia, in revenge for her husband's ANC activities. When Silas sees him again, by chance, twenty years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is due to deliver its report, 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 addresses questions of universal significance.
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