The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner Jos�
Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament.
A startling book -- sensual, funny -- and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago\'s extraordinary career..
And one thing we know for certain, Saramago writes, is that they continued to argue and are arguing still.
He confronts Him, he argues with Him.
And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust.
An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path.
The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover.
He is a witness to and participant in the stories of Isaac and Abraham, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf, the trials of Job.
Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey.
Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago\'s protagonist.
Saramago\'s tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah\'s Ark lands on the dry peak of Ararat.
The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner Jos�
Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament
