John Steinbeck called this his "first book," and East of Eden moves with the weight of myth. In California's Salinas Valley, two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons play out biblical echoes across generations: Adam and Eve's expulsion, Cain and Abel's hatred. Adam Trask arrives from the East to farm and build a life. His twin sons, Cal and Aaron, arrive with their mother's collapse into madness, leaving Adam to raise them alone. One boy basks in the affection of everyone around him. The other grows up isolated, shadowed by something he cannot name. Published in 1952, the novel circles around what drives people: who we are, why we love, what happens when love is withheld. Steinbeck's later masterpiece moves beyond family chronicle into something stranger—a reckoning with Genesis itself, told through one valley, two brothers, and the choices that break or remake them.
لا توجد تقييمات بعد — كن أول من يقيّم هذا الكتاب
لا توجد اقتباسات بعد — كن أول من يشارك اقتباسًا
لا توجد نبذة عن الكاتب بعد
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