Eden

Jim Crace

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English

Picador
31 January 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Myth & legend told as fiction; Historical fiction; Religious & spiritual fiction

eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. The garden's inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life - surrounded by bountiful fields, orchards and lakes, a place where the lord's bidding is done. But outside, where there is poverty and sickness and death, this bird has met a fate that is beyond their imagining.

For the gardeners, this summons is a warning. Because something is wrong in eden. Years after the fall of Adam and Eve, a woman called Tabi has escaped, and the angels fear further rebellion. They know gardener Ebon and Jamin, the angel with the broken wing, would both follow Tabi anywhere, would risk the world outside if only they could find her. Perhaps another fall is coming . . .

Deliciously intriguing and utterly propulsive, eden by Jim Crace is both a love story and a song to freedom, a novel that toys with creation myth and asks, where does authority lie? Who commands fear? And what - outside of hallowed ground - is an angel but a bird?

'One of our most original and inventive novelists' - Observer

By: Jim Crace
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 382g
ISBN: 9781529062434
ISBN 10: 1529062438
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of more than a dozen books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award), Harvest (shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Melody and eden. He lives in Worcestershire.

Reviews for Eden

One of our most original and inventive novelists * Observer * Jim Crace writes with great flair and inimitable imagination * Financial Times * 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 <i>Apeirogon</i> Crace's world-building is rigorous - he blends his talents as a fabulist with his love of writing about a natural world * Financial Times * 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 *