Cain
Will be published approx. on 2. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5299-8367-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-8367-8 (9781529983678)
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Additional editions
Jose Saramago
Cain
A playful and controversial Biblical retelling from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness
E-Book
07/2011
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
€8.99
Available for download
Persons
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.