Harding Paul: This Other Eden

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Autor: Harding Paul
Druh vazby: Knihy - vázané
Počet stran: 221
Rozměr: 129 x 224 mm
Vydáno: 2023-02-09
Stav: Skladem v externím skladu
Datum odeslání: Do týdne


EAN: 9781529152548
Nakladatelství: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
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The new novel from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize ************ 'A testament of love: love of kin, love of nature, love of art, love of self, love of home.' Danez Smith, New York Times'A luminous, thought-provoking novel.' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington BlackSet 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.

 

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