Engels | 18-08-2023 | 224 pagina's
9781529152548
Hardback
€ 28,95
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 '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.
ISBN : | 9781529152548 |
Uitgever : | Veltman Distributie Import Books |
Publicatiedatum : | 18-08-2023 |
Uitvoering : | Hardback |
Taal : | Engels |
Hoogte : | 223 mm |
Breedte : | 142 mm |
Dikte : | 20 mm |
Gewicht : | 339 gr |
Status : | Op voorraad bij leverancier |
Aantal pagina's : | 224 |