Bitter Fruit

6 best books like Bitter Fruit (Achmat Dangor): Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa, The Stone Angel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, Fools and Other Stories, Salt Lane, Beautiful Revolutionary

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

Author	Antjie Krog
ISBN	0812931297

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating...

The Stone Angel

Author	Margaret Laurence
ISBN	0771099894

In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.

As...

Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Author	Phaswane Mpe
ISBN	0869809954

This is a very short novel, a novella really, only 124 pages. It is written as a narrative from a second person, to the main protagonist, who is already dead as the book is written.

Hillbrow is a very violent suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa, and the title of the book is very ironic, as there...

Fools and Other Stories

Author	Njabulo S. Ndebele
ISBN	0930523202

These stories from the closing days of apartheid rule in South Africa won the Noma Award, Africa's highest literary award, and announced Njabulo Ndebele as an assured and impressive literary voice. He has gone on to become one of the most powerful voices for cultural freedom on the whole of the African...

Salt Lane

Author	William Shaw
ISBN	1786486571

No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all.

DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the...

Beautiful Revolutionary

Author

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

The thrilling new novel inspired by Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple from the author of The Love of a Bad Man.

Following her conscientious-objector husband Lenny to the rural Eden of Evergreen Valley, California, Evelyn wants to be happy with their new life. Yet as the world is rocked by warfare...