The Book Of Eve Carmen Boullosa Samantha Schnee Translation by Carmen Boullosa, Samantha Schnee (translation) 9781646052240, 1646052242 instant download after payment.

What if everything they've told us about the Garden was the other way around? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing 10 books & 91 passages, Eve decides to tell her version: she was neither created from Adam's rib, nor is it exact that she was expelled by the apple & the serpent, nor is story they tell of Abel & Cain true, neither that of the Flood, nor that of the Tower of Babel... 

With brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa gives a twist to the Book of Genesis to dismantle the male figure & rebuild the world, the origin of gastronomy, the domestication of animals, the cultivation of land & pleasure, through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, sometimes fun & other times painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories they've told us & which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, & even accessory to man, which opens the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes & breaks them in this feminist novel, foundational & brazen.

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Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, & playwrights. She has published over 12 novels, 3 of which have been published by Deep Vellum in English translation. Boullosa has received numerous prizes & honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship. A poet, playwright, essayist, & cultural critic, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York. Other novels translated into English include Before (tr. Peter Bush, Deep Vellum, 2016), Heavens On Earth (tr. Shelby Vincent, Deep Vellum, 2017) & 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.