East of Eden: Centennial Edition HANYA When Aomame steps out of

When Aomame steps out of a taxi after a cryptic suggestion from the driver

two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War

authoritarian rule

is one of the world’s great antiwar books

even as she found the life she wanted to live

East of Eden: Centennial Edition HANYA When Aomame steps out ofIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two familiesthe Trasks and the Hamiltonswhose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of