Book Review of “ADAM & EVE” By Sena Jeter Naslund
The book “Adam & Eve” written by Sena Jeter Naslund tells us about the story of Lucy Bergmann whose husband, Thom, gives her a memory stick before he dies. The stick is wonderful as it holds the irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life in universe. Deeply moved by this gesture, Lucy wears the memory stick around her neck like a talisman.
Some months later she travels to Egypt to attend a conference that has been dedicated to the work of her late husband. In the conference Lucy meets Pierre Saad who asks her to smuggle an ancient codex outside the country. The codex contains much information about the world’s greatest religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism and some fundamentalists were after it so that they could destroy it. Lucy flees Egypt in an airplane which eventually crashes in Iraq in an isolated place. Lucy gets injured in the plane crash. She is rescued by Adam, an American soldier who has become half mad and has lost his sense of reality after he was beaten by the solders and left for dead. Lucy is nursed back to health by Adam who insists on calling her as Eve. Both Adam and Eve (Lucy) have also lost all their clothes. Gradually she begins to trust and like him. Both of them get lost in the heavenly isolated paradise which is just like Eden to them. Though Lucy is worried about the codex and the effect it would have on humanity as a whole, and as well as the isolation of the place, she lives a life full of content along with her companion, till the real world again catches up with them.
The plot has been carefully crafted by Sena Jeter Naslund and is a thrilling, mysterious novel full of a desperate chase by the nefarious fundamentalist group right through the caves of Southern France, wonderful ideas and beliefs about human beings and the universe. The book is compelling and original in its ideas.
Sena Jeter Naslund is a master story teller. Her prose will keep you engaged till the end and will remain etched in the reader’s mind for days to come and is truly an original novel. This book is a wonderful read. If you are an avid book reader then make time for it, even if you are in the middle of a grueling schedule that includes juggling work hours with hobby sessions such as art classes.
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