{"product_id":"the-farther-shore-paperback","title":"The Farther Shore - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSeth Fleisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"ASTONISHING...as intellectually daring as it is lushly immersive.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMIE FORD\u003c\/b\u003e-- New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\u003c\/i\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--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fiercely intelligent...thrilling questions to wrestle with as our hearts break and repair themselves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cb\u003eCHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLast Seen \u003c\/i\u003e\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. 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\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\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE 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.\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 460\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67847156367667,"sku":"9781963101249","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/IPz5XTcNQ59781963101249.webp?v=1793489462","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-farther-shore-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}