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Cain

Name: Cain
Author: José Saramago

Novel by José Saramago (2009)

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Author: José Saramago
Released: 2009
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Language: Portuguese
Genre: historical fiction

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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.

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Characters: God
Cain
Title: Caim
Country of origin: Portugal
Form of creative work: novel
Has version, edition or translation: Q130459844 language: Portuguese
Translator: Margaret Jull Costa
Main subject: Hebrew Bible

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