Bitter Orange

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There is a couple, Peter and Cara, who are living there—let’s be clear, they are all camping there—while Peter is cataloguing the artwork. The vicar was a man she met in the local church who seems pretty interested in her and her “friends”. This may be called “Bitter Oranges”.....( citrus aurantium, having a sour juiceless taste), but the novel itself - was oozing juicy! The Memory of Animals, Tin House Books (North America) & Penguin Books (elsewhere), 2023, ISBN 978-0241614822 [16] Given that Fran has never had a friend, I shared her elation when the couple makes an effort to know her and includes her in their activities. Soon she is eating and drinking with them, sharing their cigarettes, and exploring the expansive Lynton mansion. She is clearly smitten by this cool couple: handsome Peter and charming Cara. In her attic bathroom floor, Fran stumbles on a ‘Judas hole.’ Driven in part by curiosity and naivety about all things sexual, she cannot resist occasionally spying on the couple’s private life even though she feels guilty about it.

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a b Flood, Alison (29 April 2021). "Women's prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021 . Retrieved 29 April 2021.At times, the narrator’s projected emotions risk obscuring their object. The tale of Bint Aamir’s lost suitor is eloquent enough. But a chapter entitled “The Virgin” risks sentimentalising the putative tragic spinster, who “left the world as she lived it … without a beloved to hold her close … and never having had children who came out of her own body”. Kuhl’s mother, a Londoner with frustrated ambitions in the theatre, reluctantly accepted the “sanctified status of mother” to gain authority in her husband’s family. Yet overwrought prose reinforces conventional attitudes to womanhood questioned elsewhere. Sultan S, Spector J, Mitchell RM (December 2006). "Ischemic colitis associated with use of a bitter orange-containing dietary weight-loss supplement". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 81 (12): 1630–1. doi: 10.4065/81.12.1630. PMID 17165643. Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Guardian article. 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

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Lyntons, the crumbling old manor house, is itself an enigmatic character. Previously requisitioned by the army during the world war, it has seen better days. Its fireplaces have been ripped out; books lay mouldy in the library; there are holes in the walls and floorboards; dead birds appear in the attic; pipes rattle at night; a poltergeist lurks within its walls like an unseen guest. It messes with the frail mental states of poor Fran and Cara. Spacious, yet spooky, sinister, and strangely claustrophobic. I would have run for my life. Bitter Orange held me guilty enthralled like a voyeur peeping into the private lives of strangers, often with my heart palpitating with anxiety. de okuyan, Ummanlı Zuhur adlı bir genç kadının ağzından hayatını, arkadaşlarını ama en çok da yitip gitmiş büyükannesini, "Amir'in Kızı"nı dinliyoruz. Zuhur günümüzde geçen öyküsünü anlatırken bambaşka bir kuşağın ve bambaşka bir kültürün temsilcisi büyükannesini şefkat ve yer yer pişmanlıkla anımsıyor ve anımsadıkça aslında aradan geçen iki kuşağa rağmen yaşadıkları sorunların ne kadar benzediğini ortaya koyuyor. Coğrafya kader midir bilemem ama sonuçta bu kadınların ortak çabaları ve acıları var, bunu görüyoruz. Duenwald, Mary (2005-10-11). "Bitter Orange Under Scrutiny as New Ephedra". The New York Times . Retrieved 2008-11-03. In 2019, Omani author Jokha Alharthi won the International Booker Prize for “Celestial Bodies.” Her multifaceted generational story, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth, offered English readers a rare look at Omani literature, particularly Omani fiction by a woman. Indeed, amid the surge of international attention generated by the U.K. award, Alharthi noted, “People were surprised by the book, and some even said they had no idea a country named Oman existed.”

A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple. The narrator, Zuhour, is an Omani student in a snowy British city (Alharthi studied at Edinburgh), who is pitched into gloom by guilt-laden grief over an adoptive grandmother, who died soon after she left, and an unhappy elder sister she has left behind. Isolated in an alien tongue, or as she awkwardly expresses it, “bound to a wheelchair that was language’s incapacity to fully express me”, she fears turning into her mother, whose postnatal depression was never dispelled.