Eden by Jim Crace
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.
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 *
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 *
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781529062434 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529062438 |
| Title | Eden |
| Author | Jim Crace |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2022-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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