Ea de Queirs's novel, The Crime of Father Amaro is a lurid satire of clerical corruption in a town in Portugal (Leira) during the period before and after the 1871 Paris Commune. At the start, a priest physically explodes after a fish supper while guests at a birthday celebration are "wildly dancing a polka." Young Father Amaro (whose name means "bitter" in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and soon lusts afterand is lusted after bybudding Amlia, dewy-lipped, devout daughter of So Joaneira who has taken in Father Amaro as a lodger. What ensues is a secret love affair amidst a host of compelling minor characters: Canon Dias, glutton and So Joaneira's lover; Dona Maria da Assuno, a wealthy widow with a roomful of religious images, agog at any hint of sex; Joo Eduardo, repressed atheist, free-thinker and suitor to Amlia; Father Brito, "the strongest and most stupid priest in the diocese;" the administrator of the municipal council who spies at a neighbor's wife through binoculars for hours every day. Ea's incisive critique flies like a shattering mirror, jabbing everything from the hypocrisy of a rich and powerful Church,.
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