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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord won the National Book Award. In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2012
ISBN-13
9780307819642
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Cultural genocide and colonialismReligious conversion and missionary workIdentity and belonging

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