A narcissistic God, gifted with an extremely flexible conscience that agrees with him no matter what he does, and an early rebel, Cain, are the protagonists of José Saramago's most enjoyable novel, which was to be his last. The Bible, one of the wildest books ever written and which, according to the famous Nobel-winning author, should never fall into the hands of children, is rewritten by him with an unpredictable ending, giving the opportunity for a spartan dialogue between God and man. Moreover, "the history of humans is the history of their misunderstanding with God - neither he understands us, nor we him".