Adam and Eve examine the humorous relationship between men and women by presenting their "diary entries" from their stay in the Garden of Eden and their life together outside the Garden.

Eve, the woman first known as Havah, lived in utter peace without flaw in paradise, but when one fateful decision changes everything, she is exiled and watches innocence crumble as a strange new world takes its place.

El mágico relato de nuestros orígenes es probablemente el que más fascinación ha inspirado en la humanidad a lo largo de los tiempos. Pero, más allá de los cuarenta versículos que la Biblia dedica a Adán y Eva, más allá incluso de la leyenda, ¿cómo sería la vida de aquella inocente, valiente y conmovedora primera pareja? ¿Cómo sería aquel universo primigenio? ¿Cuál fue el impulso que motivó a que Eva tomara la manzana prohibida?...

Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man, and woman, turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na'amah, Adam's daughter by his first wife, Lilith, it tells of the passing of the ancient Goddess and the birth of the new God.

Adam, the father of all mankind, was created on October 28 at two in the afternoon." When these words first appeared in Lisbon in 1897 in the "Encyclopedic Almanac, " more than a few readers were scandalized. This irreverent, clever tale, among Eca de Queiros's lesser known works, but no less representative for that, combines popular science with myth and a base naturalism with fantasy, all within a Biblical framework. The author puts his considerable...