This Eden
by Ed O’Loughlin
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Pub Date 08 Jun 2021 | Archive Date 27 Jul 2021
House of Anansi Press Inc. | House of Anansi Press
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Description
Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Ed O’Loughlin returns with an exhilarating techno-thriller and modern spy novel reminiscent of William Gibson and the golden age of international espionage fiction.
Michael is out of his depth. The closest he ever came to working in tech was when he rode a delivery bike for a food app in Vancouver. Yet when his coder girlfriend dies, he is inexplicably headhunted by sinister tech mogul Campbell Fess, who transplants him to Silicon Valley. There, a reluctant female spy named Aoife lures him into the hands of Towse, an enigmatic war-gamer, who tricks them both into joining his quest to save the world, and reality itself, from the deadliest weapon ever invented.
Hunted by government agents and corporate goons, manipulated at every turn by the philosophising Towse, Aoife and Michael find themselves in an intercontinental chase which will take them from California to New York, from the forests of Uganda to Jerusalem, Gaza, Alexandria, and Paris, and to a final showdown with the truth in Aoife’s native Ireland.
Advance Praise
PRAISE FOR ED O’LOUGHLIN AND MINDS OF WINTER
Finalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize
Longlist, Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
National Post 99 Best Books of the Year
“Bright moments from the distant past spring up beside dark moments from the present, things hidden — a death, a gift, a lost clock — come briefly into view and then disappear forever. In Minds of Winter, Ed O’Loughlin’s brilliant story of polar exploration, time itself is an Arctic: a mysterious dimension of sun craze and apparitions, chance encounters and destiny. The mechanism of this novel is fascinating to observe, its implications are deeply human. In O’Loughlin’s work, our desire for knowledge, our obsession with the past, our grappling with life itself … all of it is generously, wittily on display.” — Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation
“Hugely ambitious … [O’Loughlin] displays a prodigious imagination.” — Globe and Mail
“Readers who delight in history and mystery mixed together will appreciate O’Loughlin’s shifting drifts of reality and imagination.” — Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“In both concept and execution the novel is a serious piece of work at once vastly entertaining and ambitious on a scale that leaves much of contemporary Irish fiction looking woefully insubstantial … there will be few better historical novels published this year.” — Sunday Times
“A compelling and hugely ambitious novel.” — Mail on Sunday
“[A] masterly, richly researched, vastly ranging tale.” — Toronto Star
“Minds of Winter is a profound ode to land, legend, and love … beautifully drawn and expertly told, Minds of Winter is gripping from the start.” — National Post
“Minds of Winter proves to be an exhilarating romp through the age of polar exploration … like the search for Franklin himself, Minds of Winter is a story of death and glory, loss and triumph, and, ultimately, the mighty power of the imagination in the face of unrelenting struggle.” — Winnipeg Free Press
“Minds of Winter is a remarkable feat of imagination, empathy, and research. Past and present merge to convey the polar landscape’s immense mysteries, and the lives of those voyagers compelled to seek answers in its icy expanses. Ed O’Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel.” — Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781487005696 |
| PRICE | CA$24.95 (CAD) |
