Cain

by José Saramago

Adam was as skeptical as any man is regarding the success of any enterprise born of a woman’s brain and so he told her to go alone and to prepare to be disappointed,

Cain knows nothing about building work, advanced or otherwise, but his destiny is waiting for him here, however bitter it may turn out to be, but that’s something you only know when it’s too late to change and you have no option but to confront it. Like a man.