Reasons for Hope

Spanish literary giant Jose Luis Martin Descalzo (1930-1991) was not only an acclaimed novelist and playwright but also a Catholic priest, theater director, and prolific spiritual writer. An award-winning author of novels, essays, dramas, and poetry, he is best known in North America for his novel God's Frontier (1959). But it is his spiritual writing, built from hundreds of short pieces, that has made his work very popular on the Continent now. His story-filled work reveals at once a deep commitment and wry humor, a profound wrestling with Christian truth and a wonderfully humane and earthy spirituality. Nowhere are these qualities and insights more readily available than in his short pieces collected in four books of Razones or Reasons. In this North American debut, his surprisingly timely and life-affirming Reasons for Hope brings his characteristic warmth and hope to our contemporary situation of fear and insecurity. Book jacket.