When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes' fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out on a journey to Madrid to purchase purple socks appropriate to his new station...
Graham Greene was powerful enough to convince a communist driver, who denies any life exists after death, share a road trip with a Catholic priest on the verge of retirement. This book demonstrates the tension between the idealists who believe in a better world, and those disappointed...