Paul Harding

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• This Other Eden

  Written in English

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  Booker 2023 · Shortlist

  This Other Eden

  This Other Eden

  Paul Harding · 56 when first published

  Novel · 224 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1912 the descendants of a formerly enslaved man and his Irish wife still live, poor and isolated, on the island the couple settled more than a century before, when a retired schoolteacher turned missionary arrives to teach their children.

• Tinkers

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2010 · ★ Winner

  Tinkers

  Tinkers

  Paul Harding · 42 when first published

  Novel · 191 pages · Family, Nature

  AIAI-generated summary:An old clock repairer lies dying in the New England house he built himself, and as his family gathers, his mind drifts back to his poor childhood and to his father, an epileptic travelling peddler.