Havah: The Story of Eve

by Tosca Lee

Overview

Myth and legend shroud her in mystery. Now hear her story. From paradise to exile, from immortality to the death of Adam, experience the dawn of mankind through the eyes of Eve, the woman first known... as Havah.

Praise for Havah: The Story of Eve

 

"A passionate and riveting story of the Bible's first woman."
—Publishers Weekly starred review
 

"Havah is nothing less than a masterpiece."
—Nicole Baart, New York Times bestselling author of Everything We Didn't Say

 

"Much has been written about Eve . . . but I doubt her heart has ever been so deeply plumbed as in this lyrical novel by Tosca Lee."
—Historical Novel Society

 

"Havah is both breathtakingly beautiful and heart-rending."
—Mesu Andrews, bestselling author of Isaiah's Daughter

 

"Lush and luscious, spare and barren, rich and raw, threaded with inescapable hopelessness and undeniable hope."  
—Cynthia Ruchti, award-winning author of Facing the Dawn 

 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940180081520
Publisher:	Quelle
Publication date:	08/13/2024
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	693 KB

About the Author

Tosca Lee is author of the critically acclaimed and extensively-awarded novels Demon: A Memoir and Havah: The Story of Eve. A sought-after speaker and former Mrs. Nebraska, she continues to work for local charities and as a senior consultant for a global consulting firm. Tosca holds a degree in English and International Relations from Smith College and also studied at Oxford University. She enjoys travel, cooking, history, and theology, and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Editorial Reviews

Starred Review.

Lee surprised the evangelical Christian literary world with her acclaimed Demon: A Memoir. Her fans will be equally pleased with her newest, a passionate and riveting story of the Bible's first woman and her remarkable journey after being cast from paradise. Havah, Adam's chosen name for Eve, recounts her life from a singular vantage point. From having known only blissful innocence, she must struggle through every post-Garden moment. Frustration compounds her plight as she repeatedly attempts to regain her former idyllic existence and repeatedly fails. Havah's life becomes a fight for survival once she and Adam are cast from the Garden, and Lee's poetic prose beautifully depicts the couple's slow surrender to a world tending to destruction. Havah gives birth, raises a brood of children, watches one son kill another, observes disease and death. Yet all the while, she waits for the fulfillment of "the One" (God) who will bring reconciliation and redemption through her seed. Lee's superior storytelling will have readers weeping for all that Havah forfeited by a single damning choice.
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