This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite
simply “Graham Greene’s masterpiece” (John Updike, The New York
Review of Books). In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all
vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As
churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is
execution, an unnamed member of the clergy flees. He’s known only as
the “whisky priest.” Beset by heretical vices, guilt, and an
immoral past, he’s torn between self-destruction and
self-preservation. Too modest to be a martyr, too stubborn to follow
the law, and too craven to take a bullet, he now travels as one of the
hunted—attending, in secret, to the spiritual needs of the faithful.
When a peasant begs him to return to Tabasco to hear the confessions
of a dying man, the whisky priest knows it’s a trap. But it’s also
his duty—and possibly his salvation. Named by Time magazine as
one of the hundred best English-language novels written since 1923,
The Power and the Glory is “a violent, raw” work on “suffering,
strained faith, and ultimate redemption” (The Atlantic).
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ISBN
9781504052450
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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