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Adam & Eve: A Novel [Hardcover]

Sena Jeter Naslund (Author)

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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.

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Amazon.com: 2.5 out of 5 stars  45 reviews
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Aug 25 2010
By Kiki - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
You know when you love an author, and you love her previous novels, and you very excitedly get to read the new one...and you really don't love it. Or hardly like it? That's what the deal is with this novel. I LOVE Naslund, Ahab's Wife was so awesome, I loved it so, despite it not being a well received book at my book group, I was Ahab's champion! So it was with great excitement that I started reading this new novel with what I thought was such a fabulous premise. The wife of an astrophysicist who has made a startling discovery about extraterrestrial life in the universe must go forward after her husband's mysterious death...but it just didn't work.

Naslund is usually so great with he characters, but I just felt confused about them here. The main character, Lucy is thrust into intrigue and mystery when she meets Pierre Saad, a French-Egyptian, who entrusts her to deliver a codex with explosive new writings about Genesis back to France. Her plane crashes and she finds herself a new Eve to Adam, a mentally damaged US soldier who has been gang raped and beaten by Iraqi thugs and dumped for dead. Weirdness ensues.

I really was very intrigued by the story line spelled out on the back of the book, but Naslund doesn't follow through with her promise. The book sputters and sturggles to find itself, and verges on sappy romance occasionally. I felt the book was very self indulgent exercise in fantasy for the author, which is not to say that cannot sometimes be a good thing. But I fear I will not so happily anticipate her next book either. I predict this novel will be a big disappointment for fans of Abundance and Ahab's Wife. Perhaps Naslund should stick with the successful historical fiction genre in the future, which is what she does best.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars From the sublime to the ridiculous - or vice versa Aug 5 2010
By Nicole Del Sesto - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
There aren't any spoilers in this review. If something seems like a spoiler, it's nothing that's not mentioned on the dust jacket. If you've not read the dust jacket, and don't want any spoilers, then you should probably skip this.

I really liked this book. I found it original, fast-paced, fun and filled with wonderful characters. It's a very different kind of book, and I would encourage readers to keep an open mind. This isn't an Ahab's Wife-like retelling of Adam and Eve. It's kind of a thriller, with a codex and all that implies (i.e. religious uproar). It's also a little bit fantasy, a little bit love story, a little bit science fiction even.

It could have been a 5-star read for me, but there was some ridiculousness that I just could not get past. Conveniences that hampered the story rather than helped it. At one point, I just wanted to scream at the editors and demand they explain why they hadn't insisted on fixing it.

At times I found the writing and story flow choppy, which was so unexpected for Naslund because she usually writes beautifully. However, lodged between the bumpy and convenient beginning and end there is the oasis of Eden. The fictional Eden of the book, and the oasis of gorgeous writing and story telling. (Adam eating a tangerine ... Sublime! so simple, yet so beautiful) I loved that part of the story!

I feel like this book had an agenda (a couple actually), and the agenda got in the way of it being brilliant. The potential was there.

I've read (and loved) two other books by Naslund and I thought she was sort of a prissy writer. But this book showed me she's willing to get her hands dirty, and that makes me want to read more of her work. So while this book is not perfect, it's still a really engaging, fun read.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars The Horror. The Horror. Nov 26 2010
By Hal Brodsky - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is so bad I really have to wonder if it was co-written by James Patterson !
This evening, I finally finished struggling through this book, hoping that at some point all of its bizarre inexplicable dead ends would come together and make sense. Instead I had to suffer through an ending containing a plot device so contrived and dreadful that I doubt Greg Iles would stoop so low as to use it.
The author has some good ideas, any one of which would have made a good novel had she stuck with and explored them fully. Instead this novel lunges from idea to idea interspersed with pathetic plot devices more deserving of pulp fiction: In one typical scene an all powerful CHAOS type organization goes through the bother of building a runway in a forest (2 days random travel from where their target is) so that they can land a small plane there piloted by three aging and minimally armed villains without body guards. These villains actually arrive just as the book's heroine happens to step into said clearing, but they are disarmed and beaten up by a man using a french horn case.
This kind of bunk might go over in something faced-paced and fun (The Da Vinci Code?) but here it is interspersed with flowery philosphical musings about metaphysics.... egads, what a horror !

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