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A Novel
William Morrow
October 2010
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Featuring: Adam; Lucy
352 pages
ISBN: 0061579270
EAN: 9780061579271
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What happened to Eden? The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife, Four
Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and
provocative novel that envisions a world where science and
faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam & Eve Her books have been hailed as "exceptional" (People);
"enchanting" (Entertainment Weekly); "of great cultural and
historical importance" (New York Times Book Review); and
"original and affecting" (Los Angeles Times). One of the
most imaginative and inspired writers of our time, Sena
Jeter Naslund masterfully uses her craft to lay bare the
poignant complexity of humanity - the passion and despair,
the ignorance and frailty, the genius and resilience that
define us. From Victorian London to civil-rights-era
Alabama, from nineteenth-century New England to
revolutionary Paris, her novels offer profound insight and
startling truths about human experience. Now, with Adam &
Eve, she delivers her most ambitious and encompassing tale
to date. Hours before his untimely - and highly suspicious - death,
world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his
discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife, Lucy.
Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn of - or
accept - proof of life elsewhere in the universe, Thom
entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive, which holds the
keys to his secret work. Devastated by Thom's death, Lucy keeps the secret, but
Thom's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, contacts Lucy
with an unusual and dangerous request about another
sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a
newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex
concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis.
Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story, the
document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim religions . . . and there are those
who will stop at nothing to suppress it. Midway through the daring journey, Lucy's small plane goes
down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash
landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional American
soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge
has led to madness. Blessed with youth, beauty, and an
unsettling innocence, Adam gently tends to Lucy's wounds,
and in this quiet, solitary paradise, a bond between the
unlikely pair grows. Ultimately, Lucy and Adam forsake their
half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward
civilization, where members of an ultraconservative
religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the
knowledge Lucy carries. Set against the searing debate between evolutionists and
creationists, Adam & Eve expands the definition of a "sacred
book," and suggests that true madness lies in wars and
violence fueled by all religious literalism and intolerance.
A thriller, a romance, an adventure, and an idyll, Adam &
Eve is a tour de force by a master contemporary storyteller.
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