The New Eve

Translated from French and Arabic, The New Eve is an exploration of love, identity, and resistance in a society where emotional connections are seen as a disease. In a future where human reproduction is controlled by technology and gender roles are policed by a totalitarian society, Adam and Maneki forge a forbidden connection that transcends their world’s rigid structures. As their journey unfolds, they uncover the hidden costs of their society’s technological advancements: gender segregation, the criminalization of love, and the suppression of individuality. Amidst the rigid enforcement of heterosexual norms, they encounter androgynes who defy binary categories, opening the door to a broader understanding of identity, desire, and self-expression. The New Eve tackles questions about gender fluidity, the ethics of technological progress, and the resilience of the human spirit. This English edition, translated by Paul Roochnik, a retired tenured professor at The Defense Language Institute, California, captures the philosophical depth and literary brilliance of Moussa Ould Ebnou’s original work, bringing this essential African speculative novel to a wider audience.

Moussa Ould Ebnou is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania and the publisher at DIWAN publishing house, which specializes in publishing Saharan science fiction. Moussa Ould Ebnou is regarded as one of the most innovative writers in African literature today. He is the author of numerous novels in double versions, French and Arabic, in which he masterfully mixes science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth and fiction, philosophy and literature. Moussa Ould Ebnou is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania and the publisher at DIWAN publishing house, which specializes in publishing Saharan science fiction. Moussa Ould Ebnou is regarded as one of the most innovative writers in African literature today. He is the author of numerous novels in double versions, French and Arabic, in which he masterfully mixes science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth and fiction, philosophy and literature.