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“This Eden is reimagined in the vein of dystopian fiction, with a group of naive workers forming a gardening collective kept in line by a mean-spirited tattletale and a wealth of unsettling rumors and myths - as well as by 'angels', birdlike beings who hold themselves separate and maintain a rigid hierarchy. The images emerge from the narration like bruises on fruit, dark, sweet, and finally ruinous; the gentle, parent-reading-aloud-like narration creates an additional layer of eerie tension well suited to the story. When, as you expect, the walls of Eden fail to keep danger out (or in), the delicate enunciations of the careful workers and their watchers become the throaty and rough tones you'd expect in a fallen world - if it's fallen. Is it? Who fell, and for what? Is care between two people the only unfallen thing left? Or just the only gentleness in a world where every Eden is merely a veneer? ”
— Nialle • The Haunted Bookshop
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.
The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease and hunger rampage.
Eden is overseen by angels—their bodies covered in blue iridescent feathers, their beaks sharp and curved. It is a pleasant place where no one wants for a thing. But, as this story begins, something is wrong in Eden. Because years after Adam and Eve left the garden, another inhabitant has escaped…
Weaving together elements of the dystopian, but never letting go of the sense of the sacred that saturates western myths of a perfect world before the fall, Eden manages to be both a critique of those stories and a sad reprise of their now-lost themes.
In Crace’s wry, tender recreation, though, love does not bring the world crashing down. It is love that redeems it.
JIM CRACE is the author of 15 books. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Crace has also received the E. M. Forster Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He lives in England.