Blood Orange - Fiction Africa Author:Troy Blacklaws Blood Orange is the bitter-sweet memoir of a South African boyhood. We follow Gecko from his magical barefoot childhood in rural Natal, to his tragi-comic sexual and political awakening in high school in the Cape, and on towards that ever-darkening cloud on his horizon: conscription into the South African army. This follow-up to the acclaimed Ka... more »roo Boy is written in sparkling, effortless prose that deftly evokes the poignancy, absurdity, longing and fear of growing up white in the last decades of apartheid.« less