Author:Georges Bernanos,Howard Curtis

A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of divinity in a hostile world
A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France. Though his faith is devout, he finds nothing but indifference and mockery. The children laugh at his teachings, his parishioners are consumed by boredom, rumours are spread about him and he is tormented by stomach pains. Even his attempts to clarify his thoughts in a diary fail to deliver him from worldly concerns. Yet somehow, despite his suffering, he tries to find love for his fellow humans, and even a state of grace.
Translated by Howard Curtis
Sarah Schulman is a brilliant visionary, and this is a book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago
—— Olivia LaingA scathing and darkly hilarious apocalypse-now
—— The NationStrong, nervy and challenging
—— The New York TimesStartlingly powerful
—— Dorothy AllisonA witty, angry and anguished novel
—— Publishers WeeklyThe questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump and Trumpism now
—— Peter C. Baker , The New YorkerThis is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring examples of the human spirit's passion for revival
—— David LeavittThis emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment better
—— The Village VoiceRedemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous
—— TLSBooks of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone
—— Sunday HeraldTa-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.
—— New York TimesSlavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...
—— TLSA rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale
—— Nicolette Jones, The Sunday TimesHigh-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting
—— The Times