Publisher's Synopsis
This, the first novel Eca de Queiros drafted, is the last he completed. The Sin of Father Amaro shows him as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations. The tragic story is based on an actual events in Leiria, where the young Eca trained for the consular service.
