Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize.
La obra maestra de Graham Greene. Una hermosa novela sobre el amor, la fidelidad, la infidelidad, la fe y la muerte. Su apertura y su cierre son maravillosos: "A story has no beginning or end" en el inicio. "O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever." Con esta amarga súplica cierra la novela Maurice Bendrix el narrador.