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Hardback | Februari 2023 |
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Specificaties
- Auteur
- Paul Harding
- Uitgever
- Hutchinson
- ISBN
- 9781529152548
- Bindwijze
- Hardback
- Publicatiedatum
- Februari 2023
- Categorie
- Algemeen
- Taal
- Engelstalig
- Aantal Pagina's
- 224
Beschrijving
'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.
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Specificaties
- Auteur
- Paul Harding
- Uitgever
- Hutchinson
- ISBN
- 9781529152548
- Bindwijze
- Hardback
- Publicatiedatum
- Februari 2023
- Categorie
- Algemeen
- Taal
- Engelstalig
- Aantal Pagina's
- 224