Las Sandalias del Pescador / The Shoes of the Fisherman (Paperback)

from anneofia

I remember reading this book years ago and loving it. I first got acquainted with it through an abridged version put out by Reader's Digest. Later I found the complete book and enjoyed it even more.

from johnthefireman

A superb book. Centred on the papacy and world politics, it examines many of the great spiritual and religious themes. In passing it reminds us how real the fear of nuclear war was in the 1960s, when it was written and set. In the thinking of the Jesuit palaeontologist Jean Telemond there are ech...

from anneofia

I remember reading this book years ago and loving it. I first got acquainted with it through an abridged version put out by Reader's Digest. Later I found the complete book and enjoyed it even more.

from heggiep

After sixty years, this fictional look inside the Catholic Church, the Papacy, the Curia, and Rome holds up very well. And it's a really good story.

from Schmerguls

1029 The Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris L. West (read 12 Oct 1969) I began this book on the afternoon of Oct 11, and not being able to sleep finished it at 6:15 A.M. today. I was touched at times. But it is facile, so popularizing. And of course, fiction which is so obviously fiction is hard f...