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This Other Eden - Couverture souple

Paul Harding

 
9781773103129: This Other Eden
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ISBN 10 : 1773103121 ISBN 13 : 9781773103129
Editeur : Goose Lane Editions, 2023

Synopsis

Finalist, Booker Prize
Finalist, National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist, Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Finalist, Inside Literary Prize
Longlisted, Dublin Literary Award

One of Barack Obama’s 15 favorite books of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 • An NPR 2023 “Book We Love” Pick and Top 10 Book of 2023 • One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2023 and Best Historical Fiction of 2023 • A Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • A Fresh Air Top 10 Best Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated communities.

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain on Apple Island, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Lark and their nocturnal brood; and the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree.

Then comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials decide to “cleanse” the island, and a missionary-schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will be left to succumb to institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.

In prose of transcendent beauty and power, Paul Harding has written a mesmerizing story that explores the hopes, the dreams, and the resilience of those perceived not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Harding is the author of Tinkers and Enon. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University and lives on Long Island, New York.

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Éditeur
Goose Lane Editions
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1773103121
ISBN 13 
9781773103129
Reliure
Paperback
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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