The Book of Heaven A Novel
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Sell my copyAuthor: Patricia Storace
Title: The Book of Heaven A Novel
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 384
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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From the author of the acclaimed Dinner with Persephone comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if "a woman's point of view" were also God's?
Patricia Storace's Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job's daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.
EAN: 9780375707551
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.97 Inches, Length: 5.15 Inches, Weight: 0.63 Pounds, Width: 0.78 Inches
Languages: en
