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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Carcanet Press JAN-MARCH 2003
Eca De Queiros The Crime of Father Amaro Pbk published February 2003 by Carcanet Press at £5.99 ISBN: 1857546849


Nan Flanagan (Translator)
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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