by Graham Greene · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140017915
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«The Power and the Glory» is the literary fiction novel by British writer Graham Greene, published by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In a remote and impoverished area of the Mexican state of Tabasco, the Red Shirts militia has outlawed Catholic worship and hunts down clergy. The last priest, a fallible man called «the whisky priest», flees his pursuers while grappling with his own guilt; the flight becomes a moral journey about faith, cowardice, and redemption.
Originally published in 1940 and winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1941; the present edition dates from 1977.
Recommended for readers of classic and literary fiction interested in moral and religious dilemmas; it is a common title in reading clubs.
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
