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Jesus of Nazareth reimagined as a fully human man, doubting, loving and in open dispute with God, in Saramago's provocative retelling of the Gospels.
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Cain
After killing his brother Abel, Cain is condemned to wander and slips through time into the Old Testament's great episodes, from the sacrifice of Isaac to the Tower of Babel and Noah's ark, questioning every act of divine cruelty he sees.
Baltasar and Blimunda
In eighteenth-century Portugal, a one-handed war veteran and a woman who can see inside people's bodies help a renegade priest build a flying machine while the king raises a vast convent and the Inquisition watches.
The Holy Sinner
Mann's comic retelling of the medieval legend of Gregorius, a child born of noble twins and set adrift at sea, who grows up to become a knight and, in time, pope.
Joseph and His Brothers
Mann's retelling of Genesis across four novels: Jacob's favourite son, Joseph, is sold into Egypt by his brothers and rises in Pharaoh's land.
Faust
A scholar who has mastered every discipline and found none of them enough makes a wager with the devil Mephistopheles, and the bargain leads him to the young Gretchen.
The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers, the passionate Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan and the devout Alyosha, are drawn into their father's murder, in a novel that puts God, free will and Russia itself on trial.
Children of the Alley
The history of a Cairo alley told as allegory: Gabalawi, its founder, shut away in his great house, while his descendants fight over his estate generation after generation.
Arabian Nights and Days
Mahfouz picks up the Thousand and One Nights where Shahrazad stops, with the sultan's killing over and the people of the city crossing paths with genies and magic.
Return to Ithaca
Odysseus, worn out by twenty years of war and wandering, washes up among the Phaeacians and makes his way home to Ithaca, where suitors are eating through his house.
Paradise Lost
Satan, cast out of Heaven after his rebellion, makes his way to Eden and tempts Adam and Eve, in an epic poem that makes the Devil its most compelling character.
Darkness Visible
A small boy walks out of the flames of the London Blitz, terribly burned, and grows up into Matty, a strange, devout wanderer whose path will cross that of a pair of twin girls.
Thaïs
Paphnuce, a desert monk in fourth-century Egypt, resolves to save the soul of Thaïs, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria he once desired.