Eden's Shore - Oisin Fagan - Bog - John Murray Press - Plusbog.dk
''Unexpectedly hilarious and very beautiful . . . Eden''s Shore often felt like a sort of maritime Blood Meridian . . . I''d be hard pressed to think of higher praise'' AK Blakemore, Guardian , Book of the Day At the close of the eighteenth century, Angel Kelly, an Irishman, sets sail from Liverpool aboard the Atlas with the intention of creating a Utopian commune in Brazil. But when a mutiny takes place on the ship, he finds himself stranded upon the coast of an unnamed Spanish colony in Latin America. In the aftermath, Kelly becomes unwittingly caught up in a series of crises culminating in displacement, rebellion and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between empires.Set in an era of global upheaval, Eden''s Shore is an epic and intricate tale of greed, revenge and love. Populated by a vivid and rich cast of revolutionaries and pirates, capitalists and aristocrats, sailors and soldiers, slaves and spies, this is a work of staggering ambition and wondrous imagination. ''Visceral, propulsive, kinetic'' Colin Walsh, author of Kala ''Wild, dark and free-wheeling '' Ferdia Lennon, author of G lorious Exploits
