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Bitter Fruit is 'n boek wat geskryf is deur Achmat Dangor en gepubliseer in 2001.

Die storie speel af in 1998 en draai rondom 'n swart gesin se verbrokkeling na die ontknoping van apartheid.

Die hoofkarakter is Silas Ali, 'n prokureur gebaseer in Johannesburg wat die ouderdom van vyftig nader.

Hy het bekendheid verwerf terwyl Nelson Mandela president was, 'n skakelbeampte geword wat die aktiwiteite van die regering gekoördineer het met die bewegings van die Waarheid- en Versoeningskommissie.

Een oggend by 'n winkelsentrum, identifiseer Silas die man wat sy vrou Lydia twintig jaar gelede verkrag het, terwyl hy moes luister na haar gille van binne-in 'n polisie vangwa.

Die brutale daad was gepaardgaande met Silas se deelname aan die aktiwiteite van die African National Congress se militante vleuel.

Die paartjie het nooit enigiemand vertel van die wreedaardigheid nie en selfs ook nooit met mekaar daaroor gepraat nie.

Lydia het lankal vermoed dat haar verkragter haar seun se biologiese vader is, maar nooit enigiemand meegedeel van haar vermoedens nie, alhoewel sy in haar dagboek daaroor geskryf het.

As gevolg van die misdaad, het hul sekslose huwelik begin misluk oor die jare.

Hulle seun Michael raak ook vervreemd en die paartjie weet nie waar hy is of hoe hy sy tyd deurbring nie.

Te laat vind hulle uit dat hy gereeld ouer vroue verlei en 'n liefdesverhouding het met 'n man wat sy pa geken het terwyl hy saam met die militante vleuel van die African National Congress gewerk het.

Hy delf ook in die geskiedenis van sy pa se familie wat Moslem was, alhoewel sy pa nie was nie, aangesien hy 'n buite-egtelike kind was.

Uiteindelik gaan Michael op 'n skiet boemel.

Een van die mans wat hy doodskiet was die man wat sy ma verkrag het, aangesien hy op 'n sekere stadium haar dagboek gelees het.

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Bitter Fruit is a book that was written by Achmat Dangor and published in 2001.

The story is set in 1998 and revolves around a black family's disintegration following the denouement of apartheid.

The main character is Silas Ali, a lawyer based in Johannesburg who is closing in on the age of fifty.

He rose to prominence while Nelson Mandela was president, becoming a liaison officer who coordinates the activities of the government with the moves of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

One morning while at a shopping mall, Silas identifies the man who raped his wife Lydia twenty years before while he had to listen to her screams from inside a police van.

The brutal act was concomitant with Silas' participation in the activities of the African National Congress' militant wing.

The couple never told anyone about the atrocity and never even spoke to each other about it.

Lydia long suspected that her rapist was her son's biological father but never apprised anyone of her suspicions, although she wrote in her diary about it.

Because of the crime, their sexless marriage began to fail over the years.

Also their son Michael drifts away, and the couple doesn't know where he is or how he spends his time.

They learn too late that he often seduces older women and has an affair with a man his father knew while working with the militant wing of the African National Congress.

He also delves into the history of his father's family, who was Muslim, although his father was not as he was an illegitimate child.

Eventually Michael goes on a shooting spree.

One of the men he kills was the man who raped his mother, as he had read her diary at one point.

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