VINTAGE CLASSICS : CAIN – JOSE SARAMAGO-MARGARET JULL COSTA

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. He is there in time to save Abraham from sacrificing Isaac when God s angel arrives late after a wing malfunction. Written in the last years of Saramago s life, Cain wittily tackles many of the moral and logical non sequiturs created by a wilful, authoritarian God, forming part of Saramago s long argument with God and recalling his provocative novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.