Books like The Power and the Glory
A whiskey priest on the run from anti-clerical authorities in 1930s Mexico becomes an unlikely saint, too flawed and human to be a martyr but too stubborn to stop.
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The Heart of the Matter
A colonial police officer in West Africa is torn between duty, pity, and faith as his attempts to do the right thing destroy everyone around him.
The End of the Affair
A man in wartime London is tormented by a love affair that he believes ended through divine intervention, and his obsessive retelling reveals a faith he can't accept.
The Knot of Vipers
Louis, a rich, embittered old lawyer near Bordeaux, writes a long letter to his wife, to be found after his death, explaining his hatred for the family that is waiting for his money.
The Mother
In a remote Sardinian mountain village, the mother of the young parish priest learns that her son, for whom she gave up everything, is visiting a lonely woman at night.
Arrow of God
A priest in colonial Nigeria tries to maintain his authority and his faith as the British administration systematically dismantles the structures that gave both meaning.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Thérèse Desqueyroux travels home through the pine forests of the Landes, rehearsing the confession she means to make to him.
Elias Portolu
Elias Portolu comes home to his Sardinian village after prison on the mainland and falls in love with Maddalena, the girl his brother is about to marry.
Silence
In the seventeenth century, a young Portuguese Jesuit, Sebastiao Rodrigues, is smuggled into Japan, where Christianity is outlawed, to find his former teacher, who is rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture.
The Hacienda
In Mexico after the War of Independence, Beatriz, whose father was executed and whose home was burned, marries the widower Don Rodolfo Solórzano and moves to his remote estate, where the house seems to hate her and only a young priest, Padre Andrés, believes her.
Lord Jim
Jim, a young officer, jumps from the Patna when he believes it is sinking with eight hundred pilgrims aboard, and spends the rest of his life trying to redeem that moment.
The Axe
In thirteenth-century Norway, Olav Audunssøn and Ingunn, raised together and betrothed as children, give in to each other before the marriage is settled, and blood is shed over it.
Brideshead Revisited
A middle-class army captain remembers his Oxford friendship with the Catholic, doomed Sebastian Flyte and the long slow collapse of Brideshead in two wars.