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Zusatztext 'a ripe and atmospheric satire on ecclesiastical hypocrisy' Sunday Telegraph. Informationen zum Autor Evelio Rosero studied Social Communication in the Externado University of Colombia. In 2006 he was awarded the Tusquets National Prize for Literature in Colombia for his novel The Armies, which was also the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ANNE MCLEAN has translated works by Hector Abad, Julio Cortázar and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero, and in 2012 was awarded the Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit. Klappentext When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor! a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros! a drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to all. But Matamoros hides a darker side... Zusammenfassung When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor! a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros! a drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to all. But Matamoros hides a darker side...

Product details

• Authors: Evelio Rosero, Rosero Evelio
• Assisted by: Anne McLean (Translation), McLean Anne (Translation), Anna Milsom (Translation), Milsom Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9780857050687
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-068-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Colombia, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church