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Article: THE CONSTANT GARDENER.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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THE CONSTANT GARDENER By John le Carre Scribner, 492 pages, $28.
"As I write, news is coming in of the death of John Kaiser, an American priest from Minnesota who worked in Kenya for the last 36 years." These startling words come in the closing "Author's Note" in John le Carre's The Constant Gardener. NCR's John Allen picked up the thread of le Carre's words in the closing section of his moving testimonial to the church community in Africa, "Faith, Hope and Heroes" (NCR, Feb. 23). There, Allen completed le Carre's brief sentence when he wrote the story of Fr. Kaiser's life and yet unsolved murder.
The Constant Gardener is a timely arrival. In this, his ...
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