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CAIN
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| By: |
Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1409042022 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781409042020 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 July, 2011 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
Portuguese |
| Description: |
After Adam and Eve have been cast out of Eden, Eve decides to go back and ask the angel guarding the gate if he can give her some of the fruit that is going to waste inside. The angel agrees, and although Eve swears to Adam that she offered the angel nothing in return, their first child is suspiciously blond and fair-skinned. |
| Synopsis: |
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction.Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarain God, forming part of Saramago's long argument with God and recalling his provocative novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |