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Cain

byJosé Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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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 Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. And he is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God's angel arrives late after a wing malfunction.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

About José Saramago

José 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.
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