Sea of Eden

Andrés Ibáñez, Sophie Hughes

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786079213
• Subtopic: Literature General

WINNER OF SPAIN'S NATIONAL CRITICS AWARD

The epic literary adventure that has transfixed readers and critics alike in Spain

Almost four hundred passengers are on board the Boeing 747 en route from Los Angeles to Singapore. Only a handful will survive the crash.

Washed ashore on a tiny island with no means of contacting the outside world, tension and fear threaten to overwhelm the group. But as they endeavour, day by day, to survive, they find themselves forced to confront the reality of the lives they left behind.

Written in deftly cinematic prose, Andrés Ibáñez’s stunning novel is already considered a modern classic in Spain, expertly translated here by Sophie Hughes.

'Ibáñez is, quite simply, a genius' La Vanguardia

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• 1 Our plane goes down
• 2 We reach the island
• 3 We rescue the injured
• 4 Joseph Langdon. The aftermath of the crash
• 5 Holidays
• 6 Wade has some strange ideas
• 7 We empty the plane. A scream
• 8 The children. I meet Rosana
• 9 We find the aerial
• 10 We abandon the bodies
• 11 I meet Carlos
• 12 I join the meditators
• 13 Noboru dies. The blue column
• 14 The Third Reich
• 15 My relationship with Roberto B.
• 16 Santiago uncovers a traitor
• 17 Fear
• 18 Fear sets in
• 19 We call an assembly
• 20 We see a flying saucer
• 21 Someone comes down from the jungle
• 22 We learn how to shoot
• 23 I meet Cristina
• 24 I enter the Meadow
• 25 I become jealous
• 26 My encounter with Marianne. The Villars return to England
• 27 We set off on our expedition
• 28 We see the blue man
• 29 What I saw inside the tunnel
• 30 A lone man roams the streets
• 31 Our encounter with the islanders
• 32 Cristina returns
• 33 Our life in Madrid
• 34 We begin to drift apart
• 35 Cristina in Rishikesh
• 36 The guerrillas capture us
• 37 Are we ill without knowing it?
• 38 Our political re-education
• 39 Wade’s story
• 40 The day of my ruin. We return
• 41 My recovery
• 42 I have hallucinations. Rosana pays me a visit
• 43 I befriend Noboru
• 44 Santiago also finds it
• 45 Wade sees a ghost
• 46 Wade also finds it
• 47 Kunze imposes his law
• 48 Sophie, behind bars
• 49 We’re under attack
• 50 The night before leaving
• 51 The second expedition. We discover a silo
• 52 Memoir of Purgatory Island by The Count of Cammarano. The Eastern and Western Tables. A Skinner Institute Production
• 53 We reach Central
• 54 We meet Abraham Lewellyn
• 55 Bruckner in the Meadow
• 56 A message from Mr Pohjola
• 57 Count Balasz’s dreams. Salomé, Games Mistress
• 58 Lewellyn leads us to Pohjola’s house
• 59 A cabin in the woods
• 60 Farewell, brother of the wind
• 61 We find the wolves
• 62 We find Joseph and his group
• 63 I decide to climb the mountains
• 64 My ascent to the volcano
• 65 I have an accident
• 66 Priestesses
• 67 The University
• 68 I write about silence
• 69 Lessons from the University
• 70 My meanderings through the valley
• 71 Cristina’s life
• 72 Two friends talk
• 73 My last shot
• 74 The final hut
• 75 I offer up a poppy
• 76 Paths beneath the willow trees
• Copyright