Who Would Like This Book:
If you're looking for a wild, mind-bending literary trip, this one's for you! Angela Carter's prose is lush and evocative, every page brimming with surreal energy and hard-hitting ideas about gender, myth, and identity. It's a fever dream of dystopian America, laced with fierce feminist themes and biting satire. Fans of experimental fiction, gender theory, and boundary-pushing novels - especially those who appreciate works like Woolf's "Orlando" or enjoy performance art and philosophy - will find this an unforgettable, provocative experience.
Who May Not Like This Book:
This book definitely isn’t for everyone! The story is extremely graphic, both sexually and violently, and can be deeply unsettling at times. Some readers found it too weird, too disturbing, or simply too much - thanks to its relentless surrealism and lack of clear-cut sympathetic characters. If you prefer grounded, plot-driven stories, or are looking for sensitive handling of race or transgender issues, the dated depictions and shock-value moments might put you off. It's also not really science fiction in the mainstream sense, despite some lists labeling it as such.
About:
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter is a surrealistic novel set in a futuristic, war-torn America where the protagonist, Evelyn, is transformed into Eve by a feminist cult. The story delves into themes of gender, identity politics, maternity, fertility, and sexuality, presenting a lurid and thought-provoking narrative. Carter's rich and beautiful writing style adds depth to the exploration of dark and bizarre topics like life, death, spirituality, mythology, psychology, and magic.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Triggers include sexual violence, body horror, gender-based violence, misogyny, and mental health issues.
From The Publisher:
I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . '
New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.
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This was so hard to rate, because it was every star possible. At one hand it was a five stars but it was also a confused two stars and a repulsive 1 stars. The story is by far the weirdest I've ever read and I somehow loved it but it was so strange and wasn't afraid the get bizarre and very uncomfortable. Don't know how to feel but I ended up giving it 4 stars
What can you read after
The Passion of New Eve?
About the Author:
Angela Carter (1940-1992), journalist and writer;author of novels, poems and flim scripts has had her talents much lauded;'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century'- Marina Walker, Independent
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