8vo. pp 98. Original publisher's burgundy cloth over cream boards, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "For John, with affection, Omar." ISBN: 0394549171 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Title: REQUIEM FOR A WOMAN'S SOUL. (SIGNED)
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394549171
ISBN 13: 9780394549170
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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In a town in an unnamed Latin American country, a Catholic priest--racked by moral doubt regarding the Church's social role--discovers the torn papers of a diary belonging to a woman arrested and brutally tortured for no apparent reason

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Somewhere in Latin America, Father Antonio receives a box of notes from a political prison and becomes obsessed with assembing the filthy scraps into a narrative. The diarist is Susana, a former parishioner kidnapped on the eve of her marriage and slowly and hideously tortured to death. The priest keeps his own journal as he edits Susana's. Eventually, he must confront the monstrous cruelty of the state and the indifference of his church, or go mad. Rivabella, an Argentine journalist, has interviewed female survivors of political repression. His book can be read in an evening, but the imagery of torture and pain will last much longer.Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport,
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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