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The book of Eve, Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee

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The book of Eve

Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee

What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? In ten books and ninety-one chapters, Eve tells her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's 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... 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

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