A "winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament" by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gospel According the Jesus Christ (The New Yorker).

In José Saramago final novel, he daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Placing the despised murderer Cain in the role of protagonist, this epic tale ranges 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.

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, and the trials of Job. 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."

"Cain's vagabond journey builds to a stunning climax that, like the book itself, is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

This ebook includes a sample chapter of Jose Saramago's Blindness.

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