Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations in the illusions of romance.

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'Queiroz is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert.' --Emile Zola

'The Crime of Father Amaro is also the best possible introduction to Portuguese literature. It is the first great realistic novel in the language; a product of the wonderful period when it seemed to be easy, all over Europe, to write novels of the highest literary quality which were also commercial successes.So it is instantly approachable, while at the same time complex and ultimately mysterious. All these riches are made available in a brand new translation. Margaret Jull's Costa's new translation is far better than the earlier one. The rich patterning of the text survives as a deeply satisfying experience.' --Tom Earle in The London Magazine

' This new translation reads fluently and, more important, makes available to a new generation a work of mesmerizing literary power. The novel's plot is as sensational now as then: A priest, prey to erotic reverie and utterly without a true clerical vocation, half seduces, half falls in love with, the daughter of his landlady.The first two-thirds of The Crime of Father Amaro depicts the tactics of growing desire between Amaro and Amelia.The last third charts the consequences of their illicit passion.' --Michael Dirda in The Washington Post

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