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Rape, incest, broken marriages, endless bitterness, rage, sorrow, and self-destruction. As I write this, I realize I am flying in the faces of all the serious reviewers who have weighed in about the historical importance of this work, of its reflection of a post-apartheid era where the wounds of the past take their awful toll on every aspect of living for both blacks and whites in South Africa today. Nonetheless, I found this work to be unbearable, stifling, suffocating, and terribly written. Its self-conscious literary style was embarrassing. Its pace makes a snail look like a racehorse. Its endless redundancy drove me nuts!! Its minute observations about the three main characters, Lydia, Silas, and Mikey, made me hate them. Its self-important deadly seriousness made me want to die. Its structure is that of (1) memories of brutalities and divisions, (2) confessions of crimes committed, and (3) bloody vengeance taken. Not a pretty story. Not a pretty book. Its title is perfect. Be prepared, gentle reader, to drink from a large cup of bitterness, if that's where you want to go. I personally found it impossible to feel the full weight of the bitterness this author has to offer here because I have not lived his life, nor have all the reviewers who have "enjoyed" this work. If I had it to do over again, I would not have suffered through this book. It was torture. But perhaps that was the author's point, to project the torture these characters have lived through. Even so, bad writing.
Searing Account of Racially Driven Confects Within a Post-Apartheid Family
Author Achmat Dangor has given me a penetrating look at post-apartheid South Africa that I could not possibly get from a newscast. His superb novel resonates deeply with the legacy of racism that lingers well after official policies have supposedly liberated all of the country's residents. Dangor is intimate with the subject of apartheid as he worked to defeat it there and then participated in the slow process of rebuilding after the African National Congress came to power. He divides the book into three parts - Memory, Confession and Retribution - which suggests what direction the book will go, but it's a surprising and involving journey every step of the way.
The focal point of the novel is Silas Ali, a former political activist who has joined the new government as a lawyer working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He lives with his wife, Lydia, a nurse, and their grown son, Mikey, in a township near Johannesburg. There is an inherent irony to their existence - Silas works with the government agency that grants amnesty to those who committed crimes under the old regime, but he and his family remain traumatized by the one hate crime that happened to them. It involves a twenty-year old rape and the sudden reappearance of the perpetrator, a white policeman named François du Boise. Much like Andre Dubus circles the dramatic wagons in his short story collection of revenge and retribution, "In the Bedroom", Dangor does a masterful job in building the tension within the family. Silas doesn't confront du Boise, so the much needed cathartic release is instead directed at the family, triggering a chain of events that leads to its disintegration.
The sharply observed narrative carefully interweaves the differing perspectives of Silas and Lydia. Whereas Silas is deadened by his own stoic resignation of what occurred so long ago in the past, Lydia's suffering is far more intense as she irrevocably retreats into herself. The irony is that there is no truth and reconciliation at home as Silas continues to fulfill the concept at a national level. The unfinished business between Silas and Lydia is palpable and ultimately shattering in bearing the "bitter fruit" of the title. Caught in the middle literally is their psychologically conflicted son Mikey, who has internalized his parents' pain. As he relives the past through his mother's diary, he finds out revelations which make him feel more emotionally detached than he is but subsequently lead him to take matters into his own hands. Dangor provides such vivid detail in his account that it's hard to put down.
A moving story
Achmat Dangor once again portrayed himself as a great storyteller in this masterful story set in post-apartheid South Africa. Based on the story of a mixed race character, Dangor's true life experiences give credence to his brilliant plot and rich character development that made the story so alive. The pace is fast and a reader easily gets sucked into the novel without knowing it. This page turner is a recommended read.Brick Lane, Disciples of Fortune, Triple Agent,A Blade of Grass are other works with similar insightful themes based on stories coming from the continent
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