Consider the lilies of the field

Erico Veríssimo

first published 1947 Greenwood Press, 1969 371 pages

"Consider the lilies of the field" [is] about a man that wants to get rid of the poverty of his infancy by leaving everything and everyone behind as he scales the ladder of power and fame as an important doctor. However, the past hits him back when the woman he loved in the past dies, leaving him with their child and many doubts about her, and what they once felt for one another. And this is just the beginning of his...

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