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- Brand: Paul Harding
- Categoria: Fiction
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- Ultima actualizare: 13-11-2024 01:34:21
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• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 • Longlisted for Booker Prize in 2023 A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Tinkers . 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 there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of "civilization": eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse" the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah\'s Ark. Full of lyricism and power,
This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference. Masterful...
This Other Eden has much to say to our times. - Guardian A testament of love... so real it could make you weep. - Danez Smith, New York Times A luminous, thought-provoking novel. - Esi Edugyan , author of Washington Black