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Crime of Father Amaro

  • ISBN-13: 9781857546842
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Eca De Queiros
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/05/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 134.00mm) 220 pages Weight: 390g
  • Categories: Classic crime [FFC]
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The explosive and highly controversial new film of The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Mexico, in a material and religious culture of this century not unlike the provincial Portugal where, as a young man, de Queiros was despatched to train for the consular service. The Crime of Father Amaro is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral city, in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds with a harsh relentlessness. The situation of women, tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance, much troubled the young author in this and later books
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