{"product_id":"vhw95io3rpf6","title":"This Other Eden by Paul Harding [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Masterful . . . [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e] has much to say to our times.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep.' Danez Smith,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A luminous, thought-provoking novel.' Esi Edugyan, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Black\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenjamin 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull of lyricism and power, Paul Harding's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner, Robinson and even Elizabeth Strout . . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThis Other Eden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e. . . begs to be widely read.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328292761850,"sku":"VHW95IO3RPF6","price":394.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/VHW95IO3RPF6.jpg?v=1724096337","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/vhw95io3rpf6","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}