During an anti-clerical purge in Mexico, a priest is hunted like a hare. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little worldly priest is nevertheless impelled towards his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers.
Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by"Time"magazine
Greene s masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly. John Updike, from the Introduction
Brilliant... a splendid achievement. "The Atlantic Monthly"
[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other. William Golding, Nobel Prize winning author of"Lord of the Flies"
No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene. "Time"
Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature. John le Carre
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Named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by Time magazine "Greene's masterpiece . . . The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the . . . will toward compassion. . . . It succeeds . . . resoundingly." --
John Updike, from the Introduction "Brilliant . . . a splendid achievement." --
The Atlantic Monthly "[Greene] captured the conscience of the twentieth century like no other." --
William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning author of Lord of the Flies "No serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination as did Graham Greene." --
Time "Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." --
John le Carre
