![]() ![]() "Cain's vagabond journey builds to a stunning climax that, like the book itself, is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career." - Publishers Weekly, starred review This ebook includes a sample chapter of Jose Saramago's Blindness. "And one thing we know for certain," Saramago writes, "is that they continued to argue and are arguing still." Again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. ![]() Saramagos 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. ![]() 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, and the trials of Job. The last novel by Nobel Prizewinner José Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Placing the despised murderer Cain in the role of protagonist, this epic tale ranges 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.Ĭondemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. In José Saramago final novel, he daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. ![]() A " winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament" by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gospel According the Jesus Christ ( The New Yorker). Cain (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print)) by Jose Saramago and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. ![]()
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