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February 10, 2015

Today's Featured Title and Contest February 10, 2015
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter today's Winter Reading Contest by Wednesday, February 11th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE LAST GOOD PARADISE by Tatjana Soli, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE LAST GOOD PARADISE by Tatjana Soli

From Tatjana Soli, the bestselling author of THE LOTUS EATERS and THE FORGETTING TREE, comes a black comedy set on an island resort, where guests attempting to flee their troubles realize they can’t escape who they are.

On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they’ve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to the happiness they feel they were promised. Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes, leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll. Dex Cooper, lead singer of the rock band, Prospero, is facing his own slide from greatness, experimenting with artistic asceticism while accompanied by his sexy, young and increasingly entrepreneurial muse, Wende. Loren, the French owner of the resort sauvage, has made his own Gauguin-like retreat from the world years before, only to find that the modern world has become impossible to disconnect from. Titi, descendent of Tahitian royalty, worker and eventual inheritor of the resort, must fashion a vision of the island’s future that includes its indigenous people, while her partner, Cooked, is torn between anarchy and lust.

By turns funny and tragic, THE LAST GOOD PARADISE explores our modern, complex and often self-contradictory discontents, crafting an exhilarating and darkly satirical story about our need to connect in an increasingly networked but isolating world.

-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read Tatjana Soli's bio.

-Click here to visit Tatjana Soli's official website.
-Connect with Tatjana Soli on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, February 11th.
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