by Brian Moore · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006546924
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In 'No Other Life', Brian Moore presents the story of Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary on the Caribbean island of Ganae, who rescues Jeannot from abject poverty. This act sets off a series of events that lead Jeannot to become a revolutionary priest and, later, the first democratically elected leader in a land of dictators. The novel explores themes of faith, politics, and the struggle for justice in a Caribbean context.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
