The novel by famous Swedish writer Marian Fredriksson, a sequel to The Book of Eve, breathes new life into biblical characters to tell about the pitfalls that await a person on the path to growing up, about the search for love and God, about guilt and retribution. This is the story of a man bending under the burden of grave guilt that cannot be overcome. The author says that he was writing about the first family. Even more likely not about the first family, but about people from the “border” zone between different cultures. She was fascinated by the desire to know the child and what happens to him during the transition from one phase of development to another - what he gains and what he loses. There is a mark on Cain’s forehead, and in his heart there is sadness, for Cain killed his brother. Cain will sit on the royal throne and rule in glory, but on the very day of triumph, the past will overtake him.