The Crime of Father Amaro

Author(s): Eca de Queiros

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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


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781857546842
  • : Carcanet Press, Limited
  • : Carcanet Press, Limited
  • : 0.466
  • : February 2003
  • : 216mm X 134mm X 26mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eca de Queiros
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 220