Cain (novel)

Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. The book was first published in 2009. In an earlier novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain. In Cain, Saramago focuses on the Hebrew Bible (mainly the Pentateuch).

Cain
First edition (publ. Caminho)
AuthorJosé Saramago
Original titleCaim
TranslatorMargaret Jull Costa
CountryPortugal
LanguagePortuguese
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherEditorial Caminho, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
2009
Published in English
2011
Pages176pp (en.)
ISBN0-547-41989-9
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