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The Book of Eve

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By (author): Carmen Boullosa

Translated by: Samantha Schnee

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. 


What if everything theyve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adams rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel...


In brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa offers a take on the Book of Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the worldfrom the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals, to the cultivation of land and pleasureall through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories weve been told since childhood, which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, and even accessory to man, opening the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes this entrenched, dangerous perspective in her foundational and brazen feminist novel.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781646052240

About Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists poets and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels three of which have been published by Deep Vellum in English translation. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet playwright essayist and cultural critic Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York and her books have been translated into Italian Dutch German French Portuguese Chinese and Russian. Other novels translated into English include Before (tr. Peter Bush Deep Vellum 2016) Heavens On Earth (tr. Shelby Vincent Deep Vellum 2017) and The Book of Anna (tr. Samantha Schnee Coffee House Press 2020). Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. Her translation of Boullosa's Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. She lives in Houston Texas.

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