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THIS OTHER EDEN - PAUL HARDING GEBUNDEN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'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 Set at
the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events  This Other Eden tells
the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where waves of
castaways - in flight from society and its judgment - have landed and built a home. Benjamin
Honey- American  Bantu  Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist 
arrived on the island with his Irish wife  Patience  and discovered they could make a life
together there. More than a century later  the Honeys' descendants remain  with an eccentric 
diverse band of neighbours. Then comes the intrusion of 'civilization': 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  Paul Harding's This Other Eden explores the hopes and
dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.
'Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner  Robinson and even Elizabeth
Strout . . . This Other Eden . . . begs to be widely read.' Spectator

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