The Book of Eve by Carmen Boullosa -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraphs Contents Teresa of Avila’s Prologue 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

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

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 70. Beer 71. The Dream of the Homunculi

Mixed loose pages

Book Eight

72. It Rained 73. Adam’s Illness and Death 74. Eve’s Flight from her Flock 75. Cain’s City

Book Nine

76. Enoch in Nod 77. The Story of Lamech 78. What Became of Cain and Adah 79. Who Was Noah, Really? 80. More About Noah 81. With Noah, His Imaginary Flood and Ark 82. Escaping from Noah

Book Ten

83. Eve Alone on the Plain 84. Noah Divides the Land, Creating Princes 85. Nimrod 86. The Arrival of Nimrod’s Hordes and Nimrod’s Decree 87. The Tower of Babel and Our Great Dream 88. Opposition to the Tower 89. Surviving Babel. The New Cain 90. Eve Wonders 91. Eve’s Laughter

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