Adam & Eve

Adam & Eve by Mohammad Mohammadali, is the first novel of the Trilogy of The First day, im which the author has tried to recreate the creation myth in Iranian and Semitic-Islamic cosmology.

 The Novel concerns the story of Adam and Eve, as it is in Islamic-Iranian Culture, which is quite different from the story in the Bible. In this novel, based mainly on the Islamic traditions, Satan is not banned after he deceives the first couple, but before it, when god creates Adam and orders all the angles to bow before him. Satan refuses to bow, as he claims that only God is worthy of praise. God expels Satan because of insubordination. But Satan makes a pact with god, that he will try to deceive all mankind, till the judgment day.

All the story is narrated by Eve, who is a more important character than Adam himself.

The reader faces a mystical description of how God created mankind, how he took a layer of earth to form him, and how he called for the holy spirit from the depths of darkness to join the clay. The reader finds out how love was the motivation behind the murder of Abel, and how all man’s civilization was based on love, which justifies all his mistakes.