{"product_id":"2940016030623","title":"Saint Manuel, Martyr","description":"This brief novel is a framed novel in which Angela Carballino (the narrator), a woman in her fifties, presents the story as her memoir. The memoir chronicles the spiritual experiences of Don Manuel, the priest of a remote mountain village called Valverde de Lucerna. Angela reveals Don Manuel’s true feelings about his religion; that is, his loss of faith in God.  Saint Manuel, Martyr explores deep religious and philosophical paradoxes that question the meaning of life and death. In sum, the novel portrays a simple man without faith, who in his solitude, loneliness, and suffering sees that faith is merely an illusion, a dream that the common man dreams to fend off the terrible truth that only the brotherhood and nature in this world counts—that there’s no otherworldly eternity. His life, then, is a deliberate fraud to console his parishioners.","brand":"marciano guerrero","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146517659888,"sku":"2940016030623","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016030623_p0.jpg?v=1763627803","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016030623","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}