East of Eden

East of Eden is Steinbeck’s masterpiece, one of the most important representatives of 20th century American literature, dealing with the eternal struggle between good and evil. Steinbeck tells the history of both America and humanity by following the generations-long traces of the Hamilton and Trask families, whose destinies intersected in the Salinas Valley in Northern California, in a story that extends from the American Civil War to the end of World War I. In this work, which also bears traces from his own family, he reinterprets one of the most ancient stories, Cain and Abel, through the themes of good and evil, power and weakness, love and hate, beauty and ugliness. East of Eden is the “magnum opus” of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. “I always wanted to write this book, I worked to write this book, I prayed to write this book.” JOHN STEINBECK “A touching and tear-jerking show with the power of the wild.” CARL SANDBURG