Cain - by José Saramago (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, <i>Cain </i>daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. </b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, <i>Cain </i>daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. <br/><br/></b>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.<br/><br/>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."<br/><br/>A startling book -- sensual, funny -- and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago's extraordinary career.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p> Saramago juxtaposes an eminently readable narrative of work and poverty, class and desire, knowledge and timelessness one in which God, too, as he faces Cain in the wake of Noah's Ark, emerges as far more human than expected. <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <br>In this, his last novel, Jose Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament, recalling his provocative <i>The Gospel According to Jesus Christ</i>. His 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. <br>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. <br>A startling book sensual, funny and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago s extraordinary career. <br> A winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament . . . Saramago, playfully stretching his chatty late style, pokes holes in the stated logic of the Biblical God throughout the novel. <i>The New Yorker</i><br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Cain's vagabond journey builds to a stunning climax that, like the book itself, is <b>a fitting capstone to a remarkable career</b>.<br>-<i>Publishers Weekly, </i> starred</p> Saramago <b>transforms familiar stories boldly</b>, but with an intricate respect for their power and for the mysterious power of storytelling itself. <b>Far from merely inverting the biblical tales or turning them inside out, he folds and refolds them in a prismatic, shadowly light</b>.-Robert Pinsky, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them <i>Blindness </i>and <i>The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.</i> In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. <p/>
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