Background
Farida Karodia was born in 1942 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is the daughter of Ebrahim Karodia and Mary Farida Karodia.
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Farida Karodia received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Calgary.
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Farida Karodia received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Calgary.
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Daughters of the Twilight
(This book follows the plight of an Indian family of shopk...)
This book follows the plight of an Indian family of shopkeepers living in South Africa. The oldest daughter of the family receives a good education, but after the Group Areas Act passes, the younger daughter finds herself classified as a “coloured” person, so she cannot receive the same education as her sister. This is only one of the family’s problems. When the area in which they live is designated a "whites only" area, they must relocate and rebuild their lives from scratch.
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1986
Coming Home and Other Stories
(Set in contemporary South Africa, against a variety of ba...)
Set in contemporary South Africa, against a variety of backgrounds, these stories paint a picture of the lives of ordinary people as they go about their daily chores.
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1988
A Shattering of Silence
(Faith's childhood is shattered when she witnesses a massa...)
Faith's childhood is shattered when she witnesses a massacre in a village in rural Mozambique where her parents are missionaries. She escapes, but loses everything - her parents, her home, her identity and her voice. A Shattering of Silence charts her quest from childhood to adulthood to find her identity, her history, her sexuality and a place for herself in war torn Mozambique, where she is caught between the white colonialists and the local resistance. Through her eyes as a nurse at one of the hospitals, the reader witnesses the unspeakable brutality of the conflict which leads her to question the religious beliefs inculcated in her years at the orphanage and at the convent. Although reluctant to become involved, she is inadvertently swept up in the maelstrom of fast paced events which serve to challenge the traditional views of women and the nature of resistance as they fight alongside their male comrades.
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1993
Against an African Sky and Other Stories
(With the end of apartheid, a new constitution, and a new ...)
With the end of apartheid, a new constitution, and a new hope for the future of the country, ordinary South Africans pick up the threads of their day-to-day lives. In these stories, Karodia explores lives and relationships in the new South Africa from the perspectives of Indian, African, and European characters.
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1995
Other Secrets
(This novel explores the complex relationships between mot...)
This novel explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters and the peripheral role of a principled, hard-working father whose only fault is his optimism.
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2000
Boundaries
(Trapped in a time warp, the town of Vlenterhoek has not y...)
Trapped in a time warp, the town of Vlenterhoek has not yet caught up with the New South Africa. Transformation had wound its way around the country, taking small detours, travelling along bumpy routes on the slow rutted tracks of the Platteland.
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2003
Short Stories from Africa
(Many of these stories have appeared in various anthologie...)
Many of these stories have appeared in various anthologies. Some of them have also previously been published in a collection of short stories titled Against an African Sky. Each of the stories set in South Africa provides a portrait of the social and political landscape of a country with all its diversity of culture and color. The stories all eloquently unfold and even though the protagonists may not always be female. The strength of the female is in the silent, veiled strength as they hold fractured families together. Most of the stories are set in South Africa, one of them Sacred Trust is set in Zimbabwe, Finding My Way is set in India and My Mother's House is set in Canada.
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2013
My Father The Chameleon
(This short novella takes the reader into the lives of a M...)
This short novella takes the reader into the lives of a Muslim family and introduces them to the religious and cultural practices through the reflections of a son deeply alienated from his father. In this story the threads of love, passion, pain, greed and betrayal are universal themes that cross all cultural boundaries. Ali, the protagonist, is forced to search his heart and conscience for the absolution his father needs from those he has offended in order that he may fulfill the requirements of his Hajj. But a trail of disillusionment, anguish and disappointment makes his father’s betrayal unforgivable. Finally with the encouragement of his wife and the tearful pleading of his mother, he agrees to see his father off at the airport as he departs for his pilgrimage to Mecca. But what he witnesses at the airport causes him to rethink his decision.
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2016
Farida Karodia
Edit ProfileEducation
Farida Karodia received a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Calgary.
Career
Farida Karodia has spent much of her adult life in Canada, the fiction she writes is set in Africa. She taught for four years in South Africa, but after she divorced her husband, she left Africa and settled in Canada. Karodia remained there, where she published her first novel and wrote in multiple mediums, including film, television, and CBC radio dramas. She returned to South Africa in 1994.
Karodia’s novel "Daughters of the Twilight" (1986) follows the plight of an Indian family of shopkeepers living in South Africa. Karodia followed the novel with a collection of short stories "Coming Home and Other Stories". The stories have a variety of narrators, black, white, and "coloured," and many of them have violent underpinnings in their discussions about South Africa. In Karodia’s novel "A Shattering of Silence", a middle-aged white woman returns to Mozambique, where she had spent her youth as a revolutionary in the country’s decades-long war.
Karodia has produced another collection of short stories. Like "Coming Home and Other Stories, Against an African Sky and Other Stories" features a collection of multicultural narrators speaking about (and reacting to) life in South Africa.
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My Father The Chameleon
(This short novella takes the reader into the lives of a M...)
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Other Secrets
(This novel explores the complex relationships between mot...)
2000 -
Coming Home and Other Stories
(Set in contemporary South Africa, against a variety of ba...)
1988 -
Against an African Sky and Other Stories
(With the end of apartheid, a new constitution, and a new ...)
1995 -
A Shattering of Silence
(Faith's childhood is shattered when she witnesses a massa...)
1993 -
Boundaries
(Trapped in a time warp, the town of Vlenterhoek has not y...)
2003 -
Daughters of the Twilight
(This book follows the plight of an Indian family of shopk...)
1986 -
Short Stories from Africa
(Many of these stories have appeared in various anthologie...)
2013
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My Father The Chameleon
Connections
Farida Karodia was married. Circa 1966 she divorced and has a daughter.
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Contemporary Authors
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