What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong?
Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten
books and 91 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of
Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor is it correct that she
was 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 twist on the Book of
Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the
world--from the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals,
to the cultivation of land and pleasure--all through the feminine gaze.
Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of
Eve takes a tour through the stories we've 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.
