Achmat Dangor (1948–2020)
Auteur de Bitter Fruit
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Zimbio
Œuvres de Achmat Dangor
Een kerstverhaal 3 exemplaires
Dikeledi: A Novel 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Dangor, Achmat
- Date de naissance
- 1948
- Date de décès
- 2020-09-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Zuid-Afrika
- Lieu de naissance
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Lieu du décès
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Lieux de résidence
- Johannesburg, Zuid-Afrika
- Prix et distinctions
- South African Literary Award Lifetime Achievement (2015)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 463
- Popularité
- #53,109
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 32
- Langues
- 9
One day whilst out, Silas recognises a man called François du Boise, an Afrikaner policeman and the man who caused so much misery to Silas and Lydia 20 years ago when he raped Lydia whilst Silas was forced to listen. Silas makes the mistake of telling Lydia of the encounter and she reacts by dancing on broken glass, leading to her being hospitalised.
Mickey goes off the rails and his parents discover that he has had an affair with two older women – a colleague of Silas’ and with one of his university lecturers. Mickey decides to track down his estranged paternal grandparents, who are Muslim and as he spends increasing amounts of time with them he becomes even more withdrawn from his mother and father as their relationships crumble.
Overall I found this rather an unsatisfactory book. I did not warm to the characters at all, which made it hard to have any empathy with them. Had South Africa not been a country I needed to do for my World Challenge then I wouldn’t have continued with it.
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