This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- This Other Eden
- Paul Harding
- Page: 224
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781324079538
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Notes From Your Bookseller This stunning novel, based on actual historical events, will leave readers breathless with its gorgeous prose and unforgettable characters. Harding brings Apple Island to life with his lush descriptions. It is a place and a story that will live on in readers’ minds for years to come. Contained within this Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition is a note from author Paul Harding, along with facsimile pages of his writing notebooks which provide readers with a glimpse of how he developed the novel. Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize “A testament of love.” —Danez Smith, New York Times Book Review 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 towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community’s fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah’s Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice.
13 novels make 2023 Booker Prize longlist
Aug 1, 2023 —
This Other Eden: Paul Harding on Imagining Our Integrated Past
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the history of an integrated
'This Other Eden' by Paul Harding - BOOK REVIEW - YouTube
Paul Harding's 'This Other Eden' enforces its mythical experience with incredible language, earnest humour, and powerful shades of emotion.
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Feb 20, 2023 —
New Books, by Claire Messud
This Other Eden introduces the residents of Apple Island a year before their eviction: there is the local matriarch Esther Honey, her son Eha, and his children;
This Other Eden (Harding novel)
The novel presents a fictionalized version of Maine's Malaga Island, dubbed "Apple Island" in the book. It's based on the historical record of when “Maine
This Other Eden: A Novel
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