# Good Offices

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- Book: [Good Offices](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelio-rosero/good-offices) ([Good Offices.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelio-rosero/good-offices.md))
- Authors: [Evelio Rosero](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelio-rosero)
- Publisher: Maclehose Press
- ISBN: 978-08-5705-068-7
- Published: 2012-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros, a drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to all. But Matamoros hides a darker side, and when the church's residents throw a feast for him he encourages them to lose all their inhibitions and give free reign to their most Bacchanalian desires. A satire on the iniquities of the Catholic church in Colombia, Good Offices is at once comic, surreal and startling, a novel that will linger long in the mind.