From the author of Harvest comes a tour de force of imagination and eloquence set in a formerly idyllic garden beset by existential crises.
Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields, orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters.
But now one of the gardeners has escaped, breaching the walls and making her way into the world beyond; a land of poverty, sickness and death - as well as liberty.
The angels know there are those who would go to the ends of the earth to find her. Perhaps another fall is coming.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529062458
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 196 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 24 mm
No one is better at lending imaginative life to archetypes like this; he remains one of the most pleasurable stylists alive . . . [Eden] sees him at the top of his game - Telegraph
One of our most original and inventive novelists - Observer
A fabulist, an open heart, an imagination in full flight . . . Crace is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
Crace's world-building is rigorous - he blends his talents as a fabulist with his love of writing about a natural world - Financial Times
Exquisite . . . Much of the book's pleasure lies in the sheer vigour with which he conveys the physicality of its ethereal elements - Daily Mail
Powerful . . . the world-buidling in eden is impressive . . . Acclaimed for his stylish writing, Crace does not disappoint in his new book. The rhythmic, limpid prose, the easy cadence, seem particularly well suited to depictions of paradise - Irish Times
Since announcing his retirement in 2013, Jim Crace has had more comebacks than Kanye West, something for which we should all be thankful - Spectator
Crace exults in the art of storytelling - Guardian
Jim Crace writes with great flair and inimitable imagination - Financial Times
Thanks to Picador for providing me with a proof of the book for the purposes of this fair and unbiased review.
My first experience of Jim Crace’s writing came some fifteen years ago, in the form of his...
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Eden the bountiful garden where everything grows, nobody gets old, everyone lives in harmony under the watchful eyes of the angels.
The story opens after the departure of Adam and Eve. It seems that the eternal life...
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The concept of the novel appealed to me from the start. A whimsical fanstastical garden of eden post Adam and Eve infamous exodus. The magical concept is complemented by equally whimsical writing style, poetic and... More
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