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The Farther Shore
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781963101249
Publisher: Green City Books
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ASTONISHING...as intellectually daring as it is lushly immersive.
JAMIE FORD-- New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,
FASCINATING...an absorbing work of historical fiction and an impressive and welcome debut.
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
Fiercely intelligent...thrilling questions to wrestle with as our hearts break and repair themselves.
--CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of Last Seen
TWO TIMELINES. ONE DEVASTATING INHERITANCE. Inspired by the true story of Eugène Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds.
Southern Africa, turn of the twentieth century. Marais is a brilliant naturalist and iconoclastic journalist whose evolving theories about memory, addiction, and the hive mind are decades ahead of their time. But when tragedy strikes, he disappears into a remote African forest--leaving behind his newborn child and his conscience, and embarking on research that will haunt both their lives.
Thirty years later, his son Charles--now a professor of ancient Buddhist history at Harvard--discovers that the university's most powerful faculty are mining his father's research to bolster theories of racial hierarchy. Accompanied by a mysterious Jewish graduate student whose fate has become entangled with his own, Charles must journey to South Africa to confront his father, heal his fractured past, and stop a sinister plot taking root at the world's most prestigious institution.
Set across two interlocking timelines--from the British concentration camps of the Boer War to the rising shadow of the Third Reich--THE FARTHER SHORE is a heart-wrenching novel about memory, love, and identity, and about the vast distances we'll travel to find our way home.
THE FARTHER SHORE explores questions that outlast a single life: what a son owes a parent who left him behind, and what a father owes the child he abandoned; how science can be used to heal or destroy; and how faith, grief, and forgiveness can cross generations. It's a novel about inheritance in every sense--of genius and of guilt, and of the violence that colonialism and fascism leave in their wake--and it offers book clubs and reading groups rich and evocative material to discuss together.
For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, Daniel Mason's North Woods, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being.
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