Eradication

<p><b>'Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times' Kevin Barry</b><br><b>'A work of genius. </b><b><i>Eradication </i>is a beautiful and devastating novel' </b><b>Luke Kennard</b><br><b>'</b><b>A deft, unsettling exploration of what it means to play God' </b><b>Maria Reva</b><br><br><b>A moving fable in which a grieving man, confronts a broken world on an island overpopulated by goats.</b> <br><br>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 and reckon with its invasive population of goats that's sent the ecological balance severely out of whack..<br><br>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, 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.<br><br><b> <i>Eradication</i> is an utterly unforgettable reading experience and the work of a truly singular imagination. </b></p>