Bitter Eden: A Novel (27 page)
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Authors: Tatamkhulu Afrika
About the Author
T
ATAMKHULU
A
FRIKA
was born in Egypt in 1920 of an Arab father and a Turkish mother. He was brought to South Africa in 1923, orphaned, and raised by Christian foster parents. He served in World War II in the North African Campaign, and was a POW for three years in Italy and Germany. At the age of seventeen he published a novel in the UK entitled
Broken Earth,
but did not write again for fifty years.
Bitter Eden
was published when he was eighty-two years old. He died in December 2002, shortly after its publication.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
BITTER EDEN.
Copyright © 2002 by Tatamkhulu Afrika. Publisher’s Note copyright © 2014 by Picador USA. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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ISBN 978-1-250-04366-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-04367-2 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781250043672
Cover design by Evan Gaffney
Cover photograph by Adi Nes / Jack Shainman Gallery
Originally published in Great Britain by Arcadia Books
First U.S. Edition: March 2014
