Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Paul Harding's 'This Other Eden' enforces its mythical experience with incredible language, earnest humour, and powerful shades of emotion. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.
8/10
This Other Eden: Inspired by historical events, This Other Eden tells the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where castaways - in flight from society and its judgment - have landed and built a home. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey arrives on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, to make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain, alongside an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. Then comes the intrusion of ‘civilization’: officials determine to ‘cleanse’ the island. 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…
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Paul Harding's 'This Other Eden' enforces its mythical experience with incredible language, earnest humour, and powerful shades of emotion. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.
8/10
This Other Eden: Inspired by historical events, This Other Eden tells the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where castaways - in flight from society and its judgment - have landed and built a home. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey arrives on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, to make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain, alongside an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. Then comes the intrusion of ‘civilization’: officials determine to ‘cleanse’ the island. 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…
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/61199102
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/TheDiscoKing
Thanks for watching, and remember: there's never ever, ever, ever, ever been a show like Veggietales.
#bookerprize #bookerprize2023 #booktube #bookreview
