The heart of the matter

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Graham Greene: The heart of the matter (2004, Penguin Books)

255 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2004 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-243799-5
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Focusing on a British police officer in an unnamed West African colony, this novel attempts to show, along with the socially restricted lives of colonists in Africa, the effects of sin on a devout catholic. After sending his unhappy wife to South Africa at her request the officer begins an affair with a young woman, a survivor of a shipwreck and now widowed but is unable to end the relationship when his wife returns even though he feels he is committing a mortal sin.

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Subjects

  • Colonial administrators -- Fiction
  • British -- Africa -- Fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Catholics -- Fiction
  • Adultery -- Fiction
  • Africa, West -- Fiction