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    <body><![CDATA[Quite disappointing, to be honest.<br/>Saramago is one of my favourite authors, and I've loved every book I ever read by him, but Caim was just... so primary, so deprived of plot, so simplistic, and in many parts of the book, so fast. Saramago takes very little time to build the story, it's as if h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75889799">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had some kind of expectation when I started this book and, although I'm not sure about what expectations these were, the book didn't fulfill all of them. It has Saramago's same old style, full of his provocating ironies. It's even funny in some parts, like when the angel is delayed to save isaac b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75834063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Quem diabo é este Deus que, para enaltecer Abel, despreza Caim?<br/><br/>Se em O Evangelho Segundo Cristo José Saramago nos deu a sua visão do Novo Testamento, em Caim regressa aos primeiros livros da Bíblia. Num itinerário heterodoxo, percorre cidades decadentes e estábulos, palácios de tiranos e campos de batalha pela mão dos principais protagonistas do Antigo Testamento, imprimindo ao texto o humor refinado que caracteriza a sua obra.<br/><br/>Caim revela o que há de moderno e surpreendente na prosa de Saramago: a capacidade de fazer nova uma história que se conhece do princípio ao fim. Um relato irónico e mordaz no qual o leitor assiste a uma guerra secular, e de certa forma, involuntária, entre o criador e a sua criatura.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[“A história dos homens é a história dos seus desentendimentos com deus, nem ele nos entende a nós , nem nós o entendemos a ele .” Saramago escreveu outro livro. O seu título é “Caim”, e Caim é um dos protagonistas principais. Outro é Deus, outro ainda é a humanidade nas suas difere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79135818">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Quem diabo é este Deus que, para enaltecer Abel, despreza Caim?<br/><br/>Se em O Evangelho Segundo Cristo José Saramago nos deu a sua visão do Novo Testamento, em Caim regressa aos primeiros livros da Bíblia. Num itinerário heterodoxo, percorre cidades decadentes e estábulos, palácios de tiranos e campos de batalha pela mão dos principais protagonistas do Antigo Testamento, imprimindo ao texto o humor refinado que caracteriza a sua obra.<br/><br/>Caim revela o que há de moderno e surpreendente na prosa de Saramago: a capacidade de fazer nova uma história que se conhece do princípio ao fim. Um relato irónico e mordaz no qual o leitor assiste a uma guerra secular, e de certa forma, involuntária, entre o criador e a sua criatura.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahahah!<br/>Excelente.<br/>Provocador sim, mas não gratuitamente. Caim surge com um surpreendente sentido de justiça e autocritica. Deus, despojado da sua aura divina, mostra-se prepotente, incoerente, insensato e insensivel, como uma criança mimada.<br/>Excelente utilização da linguagem cas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75111783">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Quem diabo é este Deus que, para enaltecer Abel, despreza Caim?<br/><br/>Se em O Evangelho Segundo Cristo José Saramago nos deu a sua visão do Novo Testamento, em Caim regressa aos primeiros livros da Bíblia. Num itinerário heterodoxo, percorre cidades decadentes e estábulos, palácios de tiranos e campos de batalha pela mão dos principais protagonistas do Antigo Testamento, imprimindo ao texto o humor refinado que caracteriza a sua obra.<br/><br/>Caim revela o que há de moderno e surpreendente na prosa de Saramago: a capacidade de fazer nova uma história que se conhece do princípio ao fim. Um relato irónico e mordaz no qual o leitor assiste a uma guerra secular, e de certa forma, involuntária, entre o criador e a sua criatura.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Va mas o menos, aunque creo que tiene problemas de traducción y por eso no es tan genial... Tal vez porque es pirata :o!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Quem diabo é este Deus que, para enaltecer Abel, despreza Caim?<br/><br/>Se em O Evangelho Segundo Cristo José Saramago nos deu a sua visão do Novo Testamento, em Caim regressa aos primeiros livros da Bíblia. Num itinerário heterodoxo, percorre cidades decadentes e estábulos, palácios de tiranos e campos de batalha pela mão dos principais protagonistas do Antigo Testamento, imprimindo ao texto o humor refinado que caracteriza a sua obra.<br/><br/>Caim revela o que há de moderno e surpreendente na prosa de Saramago: a capacidade de fazer nova uma história que se conhece do princípio ao fim. Um relato irónico e mordaz no qual o leitor assiste a uma guerra secular, e de certa forma, involuntária, entre o criador e a sua criatura.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not the best Saramago, but it's very good.<br/>I just love the Babel part and his considerations about it.]]></body>
    
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