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Cain : A playful and controversial Biblical retelling from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness - José Saramago

Cain

A playful and controversial Biblical retelling from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness

By: José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

eBook | 7 July 2011

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Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God.

After killing his brother, Cain is condemned to wander the earth. As he moves through time, he encounters moments from the Old Testament - acts of faith, violence and divine judgement that he cannot accept without question. Cain is Jose Saramago's bold, darkly playful reimagining of a biblical outcast.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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"Every page of this novella, translated with a fluent and light touch by Margaret Jull Costa, has its charm. Every page raises difficult questions...as the final testament of Portuguese master, it is suitably disturbing and a pleasure to read"

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