Lilith

Lilith

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North.

Lyrically rendered, this epic U.S. debut tells the story of the woman known as Adam's first wife and her fall from Paradise and quest for revenge.

Before Eve, there was Lilith.

Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses—and is banished forever from Paradise.

Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah—God’s wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven—is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world, and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

Lilith’s quest for justice drives her throughout history, from the ziggurats of Ancient Sumer, to the court of Israel’s Queen Jezebel, and to the side of a radical preacher in Roman Judea. Noah’s wife, Norea, Jezebel and Mary Magdalene all play their part in Lilith’s enlightenment. In the modern age, as she observes the catastrophic consequences of a world built on inequality, Lilith finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women—and all humankind—at the beginning of time.

Inspired by ancient myths and suppressed scriptures, Lilith is a thought-provoking and ambitious novel with an evocative literary voice and a triumphantly engaging heroine.
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I received this ARC from Netgalley (thank you very much!) in exchange for an honest review! "There was a line [Maryam] returned to again and again, that sang like a chorus throughout: I am the woman crying out, cast upon the face of the earth. It moved me to silent tears every time. For it was me [Lilith]. I was that woman. I had cried out for what I had lost. I was cast aside. I walked the face of the earth for millennia. This was, as she put it, her life’s work. For me, it was so much more than that. It was everything I had striven for. The overturning of all that had happened in Eden so long ago, when female divinity and Wisdom were banished, so too all balance and harmony, and a new and horrifying creed was born: of male supremacy; hierarchy, domination of women and the earth; judgment and control. It was the correction and repudiation of Adam’s course, sanctioned by his god. This was the work of countless lifetimes." "All others were paired male with female, two by two. I completed myself. I didn’t need to produce new life. Instead, I carried an idea." Absolutely brilliant, this resolved my religious trauma originating from having grown up a woman in a relatively catholic environment. Reminds me a lot of Circe and Madeline Millers writing in general. I will recommend this to everyone I ever meet.

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