"If in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago presented us with his vision of the New Testament, in Cain he comes back to the first books of the Bible. An unorthodox itinerary takes him to decadent cities and stables, palaces of tyrants and battlefields, led by the hand of the central c[...]
After the death of his wife, professor Samuel Urquiaga has a house all to himself, the piano his beloved used to play and now echoes silently, the classes he enjoys more than anything in his now sad life, a couple of friends, no children, and a ton of loneliness. Happiness, like love, seems to have [...]