The Fugitives
By: Panos Karnezis
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780224101738
Subjects: Missions; Land settlement; Indians of South America; Fiction; Deforestation; Catholic Church
Description: In a remote corner of a Latin American rainforest, a badly wounded soldier encounters an English Catholic priest who takes him to the Indian village where Father Thomas has his church. The Indians, whose traditional way of life is under threat from squatters who settle in the forst they once had all to themselves, are wary of the new arrival. The army has been sent to evict the squatters, but they are defended by a group of guerrillas ... This short novel has profound things to say about faith, justice, progress, and violence.