Cain
By: José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780547419893
Subjects: Fiction; History of Biblical events; FICTION / Historical; Bible; FICTION / Literary
Work titles: Caim
Description: "In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood. And over and over again Cain encounters an unjust, even cruel God. A startling, beautifully written, and powerful book, in all ways a fitting end to Saramago's extraordinary career"--