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The Crime of Father Amaro
Author: Eca de Queiroz
Translator: Margaret Jull Costa
Cover design: David Bird
Cover illustration: Paula Rego
The Crime of Father Amaro was his first published novel (1875) and in it he sets out to expose the hypocrisy of small-town, provincial Portugal, of so- called free thinkers and, in particular, of the Church. In this blackest of comedies, Eca de Queiroz depicts the destructive effects of celibacy on a priest lacking any true vocation. Father Amaro, whose name means 'bitter' in Portuguese, sours for ever the life of the young Amelia. It is a novel in which the innocent are condemned and the guilty prosper.
The Crime of Father Amaro has inspired a series of remarkable paintings by the Portuguese artist Paula Rego.
Reviews
- Daniel Lukes in The Times Literary Supplement
- Emile Zola
- Tom Earle in The London Magazine
- Michael Dirda in The Washington Post
- Barbara Strickland in The Austin Chronicle
RRP: £11.99
No. of pages: 476
Publication date: 26 March, 2002
Re-print date: unspecified
Catalogue/ISBN no: ISBN 1 873982 89 5
Rights:UK and Commonwealth.US New Directions
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