{"product_id":"9781529152548","title":"This Other Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023\u003cbr\u003eIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys' descendants remain there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of lyricism and power, This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Paul+Harding\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePaul Harding\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Paul Harding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381102559395,"sku":"9781529152548","price":420.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529152548_b1da8cde-49bf-4cd5-81a7-72882135286f.jpg?v=1776564986","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781529152548","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}