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Foreign Fruit

Name: Foreign Fruit
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781837261178
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A Personal History of the Orange

By Katie Goh

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WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION '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... Read More

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A hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit - the orange - to reckon with the author's own identity and unpack themes of globalisation, colonialism and migration

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WINNER OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR DEBUT NON-FICTION

'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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837261178

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Illustration: b/w integrated illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 256

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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.

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