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The Crime Of Father Amaro Jos Maria De Ea De Queirs

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The Crime Of Father Amaro Jos Maria De Ea De Queirs
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Publisher: New Directions
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 2.8 MB
Author: José Maria de Eça de Queirós
ISBN: 9780811203807, 0811203808
Language: English
Year: 2015

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The Crime Of Father Amaro Jos Maria De Ea De Queirs by José Maria De Eça De Queirós 9780811203807, 0811203808 instant download after payment.

An unflinching portrait of a priest who seduces his landlady's daughter, made into an acclaimed and controversial motion picture.

Eça de Queirós's novel The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are "wildly dancing a polka." Young Father Amaro (whose name means "bitter" in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and soon lusts after—and is lusted after by—budding Amelia, dewy-lipped, devout daughter of Sao Joaneira who has taken in Father Amaro as a lodger. What ensues is a secret love affair amidst a host of compelling minor characters: Canon Dias, glutton and Sao Joaneira's lover; Dona Maria da Assuncao, a wealthy widow with a roomful of religious images, agog at any hint of sex; Joao Eduardo, repressed atheist, free-thinker and...

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