The Eden Project

EDEN REVISITED is Hungarian writer Laszlo Bito’s vivid reimagining of the saga of the Bible’s first family that immerses us in a mythic landscape: the Garden of Eden with its “tree of bitter apples,” the forbidden fruit that Bito conceives as having hallucinogenic properties; the Outerworld—a wilderness of cliffs, caves and forests cut off from the wider world by impassable swamps and the Euphrates River, teeming with crocodiles…. Sacrilegious, erotic and inventive—Eden Revisited removes an omnipotent Creator from our origin story and challenges our notions of divinity and innocence. After reading Bito’s novel, readers will never see the immortal question “Am I my brother’s keeper?” in quite the same way. For more on and to buy Eden Revisited, visit Publications. 

Eden Revisited is an inventive and provocative novel that re-imagines the story of Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel. We assume we know and understand that well-known myth, but in Laszlo Bito’s brilliant retelling, we encounter startling new meanings. A Bible story turns into a modern morality tale for our time that confronts the way we think about family, free will, evil, guilt, and the idea of God…. This book will move readers to think anew about how we might fashion an ethics of responsibility; a condition of genuine freedom without hate and intolerance. As autocracy and nativism gain popularity, Laszlo Bito’s voice is a welcome inspiration.