The central character in the novel, however - besides cain - is God – or “god,” as Saramago writes him. In its citation, the Nobel Foundation described him as a writer “who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.” True to form, Cain is an imaginative journey into a world where Adam and Eve, various angels, Abraham, Noah, Moses and Job all dwell, sharing the landscape with “cain” by virtue of a time-shifting reality facilitated in part by a handsome donkey. Saramago, who died in 2010, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. Nobel prize-winner José Saramago has built his novel, Cain, around the scaffolding of that original tale – and then populated it with other figures from the Old Testament. The name Cain is, of course, synonymous with fratricide, thanks to the biblical story in Genesis that describes the world's deadliest sibling squabble.
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