{"product_id":"9780375408069","title":"The Book of Heaven: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the classic travel memoir \u003ci\u003eDinner with Persephone,\u003c\/i\u003e an accomplished poet, and frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books,\u003c\/i\u003e here is an eagerly anticipated, stunningly original novel of heartrending lyricism about four women, a fierce mythopoeia that invites us to enter into a new and powerful imagination of the sublime: What if “a woman’s point of view” were God’s?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e commences, Eve speaks about what is alleged to have happened in the Garden of Eden, a story she hardly recognizes. She tells her version of events, revealing that the constellations we are accustomed to seeing above conceal heavens with which we have yet to contend. In the four parts of the novel—The Book of Souraya, The Book of Savour, The Book of Rain, The Book of Sheba—and their accompanying proverbs, Eve accounts for four new zodiacs and teaches us how to view each and comprehend its centrality to women: a knife, a cauldron for cooking, a paradisiacal garden, lovers embracing. Each book keenly evokes the life of a woman newly freed from the old tales in which she was trapped: a metamorphosis of Sarah, Abraham’s wife; a polytheistic cook; Job’s wife; and the Queen of Sheba.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Book of Heaven,\u003c\/i\u003e Patricia Storace has brilliantly and radically reimagined the worlds of these women, putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the so-called Old Testament itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010845786352,"sku":"9780375408069","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375408069_p0.jpg?v=1763691298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375408069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}