Fallen. David Maine

      

      ‘This book’s power to rivet the reader approaches the miraculous . . . quirky, delectable, daring.’ Janet Maslin, New York Times

      ‘A very sophisticated kind of soap opera . . . As he works his way back from experience to innocence, [Maine’s] tone shifts from darkness to light, ending with Eve’s irresistible, knowing humour and lovely paradisiacal reveries . . . Again and again throughout this novel, Maine’s talent is revealed . . . In his hands, Cain becomes a tortured hero, the character who is remembered long after the bland and blameless Abel is forgotten.’ Elena Seymenliyska, Guardian

      ‘Maine’s prose is as simple and economical as the life it’s depicting, but it doesn’t skimp when elaborating the basic passions felt by its players, as they learn what it is to be human.’

      Dave Pollock, Independent

      ‘With a modern novelist’s art, acuity and insistence on psychological realism, Maine . . . had me believing in the truth of these most archetypal of characters and the situation they found themselves in . . . Having appropriated such an old story it’s a marvel that Maine can make it feel so fresh.’ Independent on Sunday

      ‘With charm and wry wit, [Maine] merely tickles the idea that God is perhaps, well . . . a bit of a bastard.****’

      Alex Barlow, Time Out

      ‘Maine has exchanged the compact narrative of the Old Testament for the modern novel, supplying the psychological motives, theological questioning and explanatory incidents absent from his bibliographical sources.’ Matthew Creasy, Financial Times

      Also by David Maine

       The Flood

       The Book of Samson

      fallen David Maine

      CANONGATE

       Edinburgh • New York • Melbourne

      First published in Great Britain in 2006 by

      Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,

      Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      First published in America by St Martin’s Press, New York, 2005

      This edition first published by Canongate Books Ltd in 2007

      This digital edition first published in 2013 by Canongate Books.

      Copyright © David Maine, 2005

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on

      request from the British Library

      ISBN 9781782112273

       www.canongate.tv

      for my family

      Contents

       Book One

       The Murder

40.	The Old Man
39.	The Brother
38.	The Son
37.	Thirty Years Previous
36.	The Mistake
35.	The Proposal
34.	The Strangers
33.	The Years Previous
32.	The Conversation
31.	The Murder

       Book Two

       The Brother

30.	The Murder
29.	The Girl
28.	Some Weeks Previous
27.	The Old Man
26.	The Stranger
25.	The Conversations
24.	The Previous Two Years
23.	The Judgment
22.	The Offering
21.	The Proposal

       Book Three

       The Family

20.	The Proposal
19.	The Previous Winter
18.	The Mistake
17.	The Abomination
16.	The Conversation
15.	Two Summers Previous
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