{"product_id":"the-farther-shore-9781963101249","title":"The Farther Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"ASTONISHING...as intellectually daring as it is lushly immersive.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e, JAMIE FORD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"FASCINATING...an absorbing work of historical fiction and an impressive and welcome debut.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--KIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTWO TIMELINES. ONE DEVASTATING INHERITANCE. Inspired by the true story of Eugène Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthern Africa, turn of the twentieth century. Eugene 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet across two interlocking timelines--from the British concentration camps of the Boer War to the rising shadow of the Third Reich--\u003cb\u003eTHE FARTHER SHORE\u003c\/b\u003e is a heartbreaking, exhilarating novel about memory, love, and identity, and about the vast distances we'll travel to find our way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FARTHER SHORE \u003c\/b\u003eexplores 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 plenty of rich and evocative material to discuss together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Anthony Doerr's \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, Abraham Verghese's \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Mason's \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Ondaatje's \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ruth Ozeki's \u003ci\u003eA Tale for the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-18466303\"\u003eSeth Fleisher\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Green City Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963101249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963101243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014080\"\u003eHistorical | 20th Century | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC046000\"\u003eJewish\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Fleisher \u003c\/b\u003eis an American author whose work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review, Pearl, the Journal of Anthropological Research, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. Based in Berkeley, California, he has worked with the World Bank Group and other NGOs in South Africa, India, and more than 40 other countries, and co-founded a U.S.-based democracy initiative to counter the rising tide of authoritarianism. A former Fulbright scholar in Sri Lanka, Seth did Ph.D. work at Harvard in Buddhist social history, a fellowship at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions, and a B.A. in literature at Swarthmore, where he and his wife first met in a Chaucer seminar. \u003ci\u003eThe Farther Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Green City Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229477523753,"sku":"9781963101249","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/9781963101249.jpg?v=1790358994","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-farther-shore-9781963101249","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}