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By Лэнг Оливия
Olivia Laing, 2025
This book explores the concept of paradise through the lens of gardens. Olivia Laing began restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, leading to an investigation of paradise and its historical associations. The narrative moves between real and imagined gardens, examining the cost of creating earthly paradises, from Milton's Paradise Lost to aristocratic pleasure grounds funded by slavery. It also highlights gardens as sites of rebellion and communal dreams, such as Derek Jarman's queer utopia and William Morris's vision of a common Eden. These experiments in living offer vital perspectives for the era of climate change, presenting gardens not as escapes but as spaces for encounter and discovery.