The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós

The Crime of Father Amaro

Eça de Queirós with Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

471 pages first pub 1875 (editions)

fiction classics romance funny sad tense slow-paced
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Eça de Queirs's novel is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal during a period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune.Young, virile Father Amaro arrives in Leira and is taken in as a lodger by São Joaneira. Her budding, devo...

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