Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young AmeliaSet in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am elia’s mother, her atheist suitor,...
In this very funny late novel, published after his death, Eça’s satire is turned on the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself, and the bucolic second half, which bubbles with joie-de-vivre, reflects Eça’s own recently discovered joy...
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