Saramago, Jose (1922-2010)

Cain / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2011. - 159 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation from the Portuguese of: Caim.

The author reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible of the story of Cain. Condemned to wander thru time after he kills Abel, he experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood.

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Cain (Biblical figure)----Fiction
Bible O.T.----History of Biblical events----Fiction

PQ9281.A66 / C3513 2011

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