East of Eden

“Everything that I wrote earlier, in a sense, was only a preparation for the creation of this novel,” said John Steinbek himself about the book “To the East of Edem”, and with a full basis: he managed to create one of the main literary masterpieces of the XX centuries.
Roman, provoking a storm of disturbances of conservative critics, took first place among national bestsellers for a long time.
“East of Edem” - a book about passionate love and hatred, about mistakes and crimes, about trust and betrayal . The plot is based on the story of the two sons of the Californian Adam Trac, peculiar Cain and Abel. Each of them is looking for its own way in this world and constantly facing the choice: to create good or evil, to become a victim or a ruthless predator