Publisher's Synopsis
Mike bar Hayati (the condemned man) was born on a rainy morning weighing approximately four kilos, with his own father as midwife, who instinctively cut the umbilical cord with a very sharp and more or less sterilized stone knife.
Havva proved to be very brave, despite the loss of blood and the trauma of bringing a child into the world under such circumstances. She was radiant and after cleaning the baby and breastfeeding him, she offered him to Adem as a trophy.
While the father looked at his newborn son in amazement, with a huge smile, she raised her eyes to the heavens and remembered her Father, the old Judge Hakim, and said - let's call him Mike -, which means "forged" or "acquired". Well, - I have obtained a male child with the help of the Lord God - she said.
