Heartfruit is both a sweeping saga and a revisionist “farm novel”. It traces the story of a South African fruit farm and the farm’s transition from a traditional white-held ownership to a new dispensation of collective ownership (where the traditional roles of worker and landowner are redefined) and explores the economic relationships and legal issues surrounding farming and the export of fruit from South Africa. The story stretches from the 1970’s to approximately the turn of the 20th...
