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Availability:In StockPublish date:2023-06-28Pages:159
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollins PublishersISBN-13:9780547840178ISBN-10:547840179UPC:9780547840178Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCS73YKVXN
The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament.
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. Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago's protagonist.
Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. 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. The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover. An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path. And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. "And one thing we know for certain," Saramago writes, "is that they continued to argue and are arguing still."
A startling book--sensual, funny--and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago's extraordinary career.
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. Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago's protagonist.
Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. 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. The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover. An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path. And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. "And one thing we know for certain," Saramago writes, "is that they continued to argue and are arguing still."
A startling book--sensual, funny--and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago's extraordinary career.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollins PublishersISBN-13:9780547840178ISBN-10:547840179UPC:9780547840178Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCS73YKVXN
JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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