De kern van de zaak = The heart of the matter

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Graham Greene: De kern van de zaak = The heart of the matter (Dutch language, 1974, Uitgeverij Contact)

292 pages

Dutch language

Published Aug. 6, 1974 by Uitgeverij Contact.

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978-90-6019-518-5
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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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