The fate of every author should be to write his best work shortly before leaving the stage, either by withdrawal from the world of literature or by death. Crude but true.
Because later we find cases like that of John boyne, unable to soar over her boy in the striped pajamas. And it is even likely that it is not even his best novel, but the gift of opportunity sometimes touches the most successful story with his wand.
The simplicity and innocence of childhood and the intense power of drama as an inconceivable couple. That cocktail that made us all a little more human, more sensitive from the literary point of view for the rest of things. An invaluable reading, one of those that make up that imaginary of necessary goodness, of humanity sine qua non, this world can keep turning.
But the point is, Boyne had a lot more to tell us. And despite the overshadowing of the giant child that covers everything, it turns out that that special sensitivity of the author continues to fertilize in great stories ...
A shocking tale of power, corruption, lies, self-deception and the abuses of the Catholic Church, by the acclaimed author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Ireland, 1970. After a family tragedy and due to the sudden religious fervor of his grieving mother, Odran Yates is forced to ordain himself a priest, so, at the age of 17, he enters the Clonliffe seminary accepting the vocation that others have chosen for him.
Four decades later, Odran's devotion is cracked by revelations that are destroying the faith of the Irish people from a sex abuse scandal. Many of his fellow priests end up incarcerated, and the lives of young parishioners destroyed.
When a family event reopens the wounds of the past, Odran is forced to confront the demons unleashed within the Church and to acknowledge his complicity in those events.
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