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The book of Eve / Carmen Boullosa ; translated by Samantha Schnee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boullosa, Carmen, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Libro de Eva. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--Fiction.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [2023]
- Contents:
- Book One
- 1. The Beginning
- 2. Presenting Eve, the Apple, Eden, and Eve's Daughters, Who Ask about the Serpent
- 3. Nakedness, the Look, the Voices of the Trees
- 4. Thunder
- 5. Thunder Butchers the Animals, Their Hides
- 6. Eden Stank
- Loose papers which were interspersed among the pages of the first book
- Book Two
- 7. The Hooves and the Memory of Eden
- 8. The Sight of Earth
- 9. The First Ridge
- 10. The Guardian Angel and Fire
- 11. The Second Ridge. The Slope. The Cold and the Weeping
- 12. The Moon (Absent and Present). Laughter
- 13. Night
- 14. Eve Dreams
- 15. Eve and Adam
- 16. Adam's Skin
- 17. Thirst
- 18. Fire, the Protector
- 19. Words
- 20. White Darkness
- 21. The Rain. Eve's Dance
- 22. The Bee
- 23. The Beast and Our Flight
- Eve's Loose Papers
- Book Three
- 24. Descent
- 25. The Rivulet of Water
- 26. The CaveHouse
- Making Fire
- The Song
- The First Cave Painting
- The End of Our Hooves
- 27. Curiosity, Fear, Cooking
- 28. Fingernails, Hair. One Anus, the Other, Defecation and Hunger
- 29. To the Plains, the Beasts, the Clay
- 30. Molding Clay, the Conversation
- Loose papers from the pages of Book Three
- Book Four
- 31. The Wellspring with Light: Our Refuge
- 32. The Smoke and the Bees, the Honey. Another Dream of Eve's
- 33. The Seed of Paradise
- 34. The Clitoris
- 35. The Seeds, the Flower, an Angel, and Another
- 36. Clitoris Envy. The Penis.
- 37. We Poison Our Refuge
- Loose pages
- Book Five
- 38. The River's Mud and Its Beasts
- 39. The Stink of Sulfur, the Rescue, Our Fence, the House-Tent
- 40. The Kitchen: Keeping Track of Time, the Pursuit of Pleasure, Decoration
- 41. Wanting Children. First Attempts
- 42. I Tell Our History on Stone, Adam Tells His Lie
- 43. More Attempts at a Child
- 44. Further Attempts
- 45. The Horse Is Born unto Them
- 46. Copying the Beasts, and What Happened When We Tried
- 47. Cain Arrives
- 48. Eve Calls to Adam
- 49. Eve Gathers the Creatures
- 50. Menstruation
- 51. Adam Said
- 52. Abel Arrives
- 53. The Thing Called Abel
- 54. Adah Is Born
- 55. Fraternal Rivalry
- 56. Adam and Abel Invent Prayer, and the Slaughterhouse
- 57. I Birth Two Daughters
- 58. There Are Almonds and Then There Are Almonds
- 59. Glazed Pottery, Jewelry
- 60. Adam's Dogged Lie
- 61. Earth's Strength
- Eve's loose papers, including the story of one of Eve's daughters
- Book Six
- 62. Adah's Story
- 63. Cain and I See What We Didn't See
- 64. The Splinter of Bone
- 65. The Next Morning
- 66. The Offerings of Cain (the Tiller of the Soil) and of Abel (Shepherd)
- Loose pages, including the story of Lilith
- Book Seven
- 67. Cain's Exile
- 68. Abel's Body
- 69. Barren Earth.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Boullosa, Carmen. Libro de Eva. English. Book of Eve.
- Print version: Carmen, Boullosa The Book of Eve
- ISBN:
- 1646052501
- 9781646052509
- Publisher Number:
- 99995764956
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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