Bitter Fruit Author:Achmat Dangor The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, he was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas's wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband's participation in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise again, by chance, twenty years later, as the ... more »Truth and Reconciliation Commission is due to deliver its report, crimes form the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis' fragile peace of mind. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia's son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents' activist pasts.« less