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Paul Harding is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tinkers, and Enon. He teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature at Stony Brook University, and lives on Long Island, New York.<b>The Pulitzer prize-winning author's gifts have found their fullest expression</b> . . . [<i>This Other Eden</i>] impresses time and again because of the depth of Harding's sentences, their breathless angelic light
Observer
<b>Masterful </b>. . . <i>This Other Eden </i>is a story of good intentions, bad faith, worse science, but also a tribute to community and human dignity and the possibility of another world. In both, it has much to say to our times
Guardian
Harding's new novel is suffused with the tremulous imagery and soaring imagination that won him the Pulitzer Prize . . . <b>Exquisite</b>
- Financial Times,
<b>Masterful </b>. . . <i>This Other Eden </i>is a story of good intentions, bad faith, worse science, but also a tribute to community and human dignity and the possibility of another world. In both, it has much to say to our times.
Guardian
Harding's new novel is suffused with the tremulous imagery and soaring imagination that won him the Pulitzer Prize . . . <b>Exquisite</b>.
Financial Times
<b>Rich and full-bodied</b> in its lyricism, Harding's novel, too, is part warning, part memorial, but perhaps above all, reinforces the power of art to bring us into sympathy with strangers' lives.
Daily Mail
<b>Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner, Robinson and even Elizabeth Strout</b> . . . <i>This Other Eden</i> . . . begs to be widely read.
Spectator
<b><i>This Other Eden</i> is ultimately a testament of love: love of kin, love of nature, love of art, love of self, love of home </b>. . . The humans he has created are, thankfully, not flattened into props and gimmicks, which sometimes happens when writers work across time and difference; instead they pulse with aliveness, dreamlike but tangible, so real it could make you weep.
New York Times
<b>Powerful </b>. . . a moving indictment of a shocking episode in America's past that is rendered in lyrical prose.
Mail on Sunday
[Harding] writes with the gravitas of a mythmaker . . . The pace of Harding's storytelling is stately, his descriptions, even of small events, <b>gorgeous . . . <i>This Other Eden </i>is beautiful and agonizing</b>.
Harper's
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE
'Masterful . . . [This Other Eden] has much to say to our times.' Guardian
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep.' Danez Smith, New York Times
'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.
'Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner, Robinson and even Elizabeth Strout . . . This Other Eden . . . begs to be widely read.' Spectator