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Foreign Fruit

By Katie Goh

Foreign Fruit Books

Foreign Fruit

By Katie Goh

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WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE A DEBUTIFUL BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it' - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked in supermarket displays, is not the same orange that grew from the first straggling orange grove that took root on the Tibetan plateau, part pomelo and part mandarin. The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment - each moment of history, each meaning in time - is pulled apart? In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she finds is a world of violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and of unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2025-05-08
Publication Date:
2025-05-08
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
180530173X
ISBN13:
9781805301738
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
361 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
223 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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