Bitter Eden: A Novel (27 page)

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.
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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