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- Book Synopsis
- WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026 A DEBUTIFUL BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A bold new voice' IRISH TIMES 'Visceral . . . I could feel every word' ANGELA HUI 'Thoughtful, poetic and clear-sighted' CECILE PIN 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 reveals is violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.
- About The Author
- Katie Goh is a writer and editor. Foreign Fruit, her first work of narrative non-fiction, won Scotland's 2025 National Book Award for Debut Non-Fiction and her book of essays The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was shortlisted for the 2022 Kavya Prize. Her award-nominated essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including Port, the Guardian, Gutter, Wasafiri, i-D, Dazed and gal-dem, and she is an editor for Extra Teeth literary magazine. She grew up in the north of Ireland and lives in Edinburgh. katiegoh.co.uk
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781805301738
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Canongate, (08 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 365 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 220 x 141 x 23 mm
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