Foreign Fruit

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katie Goh
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 08.05.2025
• Categoria: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9781805301738
• ISBN: 978-1-80530-173-8
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.1 x 22 x 2.3 cm
• Categorie: Migration, China, Malaysia, Silk Road, Heritage, Vienna, Memoirs, celeste ng, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Colonialism, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, second generation, strong female voices; Asian British stories; East Side Voices; Helena Lee; Mary Jean Chan; Celeste Ng; Rowan Hisayo Buchanan; heritage; migration; colonialism; Malaysia; China; Vienna; Silk Road; second generation, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Mary Jean Chan, Asian British stories, Helena Lee, East Side Voices