by Archibald Joseph Cronin · France Loisirs / Albin Michel · tapa dura · ISBN 9782744112843
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The Keys of the Kingdom is a powerful novel by A.J. Cronin that follows the life of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest. Sent to establish a mission in China, Chisholm faces numerous challenges, including poverty, civil war, and plague, while maintaining a spirit of tolerance and genuine Christian charity that often puts him at odds with his own church hierarchy.
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service.
