One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or redemption, travels through Mexico administering the rites of the church to the poor landless peasants, hunted by a remorseless police officer and always in fear of being betrayed by those he is attempting to help.
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- Anti-clericalism
- Catholic Church
- Catholics
- Clergy
- Fiction
- Persecution
- Social life and customs
- Classics
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- Supsense
- Historical fiction
- Classic
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Clergy, fiction
- Mexico, fiction
- Fiction, christian, general
- Large type books
- Anticléricalisme
- Romans, nouvelles
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