Dark Vales |
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| Author:
| Casellas, Ramon |
| Editor:
| Bosch, Eva |
| Translator:
| Yates, Alan |
| Series title: | Dedalus European Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-909232-61-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Dedalus Books Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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The protagonist, Father Llatzer, a priest banished for doctrinal heresy to an isolated, backward mountain parish, struggles to achieve personal redemption by bringing salvation to his primitive, taciturn, rural flock. Their mute atavism is disturbed only by the local whore, Footloose, embodying all the forces against which the priest's reforming mission is directed. Ambiguity surrounds the denouement of that conflict. Dark Vales is as as compelling today as...
More DescriptionThe protagonist, Father Llatzer, a priest banished for doctrinal heresy to an isolated, backward mountain parish, struggles to achieve personal redemption by bringing salvation to his primitive, taciturn, rural flock. Their mute atavism is disturbed only by the local whore, Footloose, embodying all the forces against which the priest's reforming mission is directed. Ambiguity surrounds the denouement of that conflict.
Dark Vales is as as compelling today as when it was first written.