Eradication : a fable / Jonathan Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Jonathan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islands of the Pacific--Fiction.

Islands of the Pacific.

Solitude--Fiction.

Solitude.

Extinction (Biology)--Fiction.

Extinction (Biology).

Bereavement--Fiction.

Bereavement.

Ecofiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Ecofiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

159 pages : map ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Doubleday hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, 2026.

Summary:

"Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician–turned–schoolteacher named Adi answers a job listing advertising a chance to save the world. The assignment: to spend five weeks alone on the tiny, isolated Pacific Island of Santa Flora righting an ecological balance that’s gone severely out of whack, with the aim of preserving countless bird and plant species from certain extinction. What follows, however, is anything but balanced. The threats to the once-Edenic island, Adi soon learns, aren’t exactly what his employers said they were—and, complicating things further, he discovers he’s not alone on the island. Fearful for his own life, and for the fate of the island’s, Adi spends his sun-drenched days rooting out the true threat to Santa Flora, and, by extension, to the world it occupies—and the desperate steps he must take to eradicate it"-- Provided by publisher.

"A novel about a bereaved man alone on an island who's been tasked with killing its inhabitants"-- Provided by publisher.

"Reeling from tragedy, former jazz musician-turned-schoolteacher Adi answers a job listing offering a chance to save the world. The assignment: spend five weeks alone on the tiny Pacific island of Santa Flora, restoring an ecological balance gone dangerously awry by an invasive population of goats. Though he has no experience in wildlife management, he is hired anyway. Armed with little more than survival gear and uneasy resolve, he sets out to remove what doesn't belong. But the mission is not what it seems. The threats to the once-Edenic island aren't what his employers claim. Complicating things further, he discovers he's not alone on the island. Fearful for his own life, and for the fate of the island's, Adi spends his sun-drenched days rooting out the true threat to Santa Flora and by extension, to the world it occupies. As isolation deepens and doubt takes hold, he finds the boundaries between duty and redemption, preservation and harm, growing harder to define." -- Publisher's website.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version Miles, Jonathan Eradication

ISBN:

9780385551915

0385551916

OCLC:

1519663685