~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Audie Award for Classic - 2004, and the German Audiobook Award for Best Audio Drama - 2022
Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families (the Trasks and the Hamiltons) whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel in a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.
First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.