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José Saramago

I'll start this review with the truth in front: I have not liked anything this book and I was supremely bored. I am sad and disappointed because what little I've read Saramago so far I love it, so this has been a surprise. Recall that Cain was his last novel. Well, at first promised, it seemed fun and I even got a laugh with some párrafaos, then enjoyed the style and wry humor of this particular writer. But as it progresses, the boss is the boredom and in some chapters I have found it unbearable that reading. And that does not reach the two hundred pages and then it's over soon.

The argument is quite simple to explain: we started with Adam and Eve in Eden, newly created by God. Then comes the serpent, the apple and all that we know and are expelled from paradise and doomed to live in this our world. All I really liked that part because it contains a lot of clever humor. But then Adam and Eve have two sons who are Cain and Abel, and which also occurs all know Cain murdered Abel to death with the jawbone of a donkey because he had the favor and praise of God for their work and Cain. Thus, this character which gives name to the book, is condemned by God to wander the earth until the end of his days.

Cain killing Abel (XV century painting)

From there, the novel becomes a series of Bible stories, the kind that We all know also, albeit popular, but transforming the legend. During his pilgrimage, Cain can travel into the future and witnessing moments that have not yet occurred. For example, we witnessed the building of the Tower of Babel, Moses came to town during his stay at the foot of Mount Sinai, or is a passenger over Noah's ark. And what you learn during this time is that God is vengeful, hate the man and is a little crazy. Well, it turns green Saramago the Almighty throughout the book. I am not a religious person, so I have not taken the tremendous all this critiqueo: I tried to humor him because that's how you have to take these books, without going beyond (with The Da Vinci Code, for example, I played well and entertained me very much. So I liked). What happens is that Cain seemed to me rather than a novel, a cruelty, a form of Saramago be emphasized and to express its profound atheism, but to bad. And all this has me very tired, I was exhausted because the book is all the same. Speaking ill and soon, is tiresome. Is repetitive loop.

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Read: 21 al 23 March 2011
Original title: Caima
Translation: Pilar del Rio (Portuguese)
Editorial: Readers Circle (provided by Santillana Ediciones Generales)
Edition: First (2009)
Format: Cover
hard ISBN: 978-84-672-3923-2
Pages: 191
Price: cost me € 1 because I chose it for the welcome pack of Ballantine Books (less than bad that I spent more)

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This book helps me to the 50 Books Challenge 2011 (van 12) and Chemistry Challenge with 2011 (Item: Osmium - Representation: I - I use The challenge: P6).