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- Book Synopsis
- WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2026 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.
- 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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