by Paul Harding · Edicions de 1984 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418858802
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«Un altre edèn» is the literary fiction novel by Paul Harding published by Edicions de 1984 in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
In 1793, Benjamin Honey, a former slave, and his Irish wife discover an island off Maine and found a community. A hundred years later, their descendants live there, poor but far from the hostility of the mainland. The arrival of Matthew Diamond and the decision to evacuate the island to turn it into a vacation destination shatter their equilibrium.
Originally published in English as This Other Eden and translated into Catalan by Marc Rubió. It is number 249 in the Mirmanda collection. Finalist for the National Book Award and Booker prizes in 2023.
For readers of literary fiction with historical and social background, interested in marginalized communities and resistance to intolerance.
Paul Harding is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, among other honors. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston. Previously, Harding was the director of the Creative Writing and Literature MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, as well as interim associate provost of Stony Brook University's Lichtenstein Center.
