by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420405094
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«Caín» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (200 pages, in Spanish).
After his offering is rejected, Cain travels through the early books of the Bible and witnesses episodes such as the flood, the destruction of Sodom, and the sacrifice of Isaac. Saramago builds an ironic and heterodox narrative in which the biblical character questions God's cruelty and arbitrariness.
Originally published in 2009 and nominated for the Portugal Telecom Literature Prize in 2010. Spanish translation by Pilar del Río.
For adult readers interested in religious and literary fiction and in ironic reinterpretations of biblical episodes.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
