With an appreciative and sensitive hand, Joe Thomas has located and interpreted Lesslie Newbigin's theology of religious plurality and his vision for dialogue among people of diverse faiths. This book is a benchmark for all that follows....

Christ and the World of Religions: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology

Religion & Spirituality

Joe Thomas

Christian Books & Bibles

Ekklesia

Great crime fiction hinges on a sense of place, and after returning to London after ten years living in the world in which he's set his sophisticated debut, Thomas proves an adroit guide to a city that has developed at dizzying speed. - GQ São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil police, has developed a friendship with a young English investigative journalist, Ellie. When she goes to meet a contact in central São Paulo, Mario observes from the street as she walks into a building and doesn t come out. Inside, he discovers the dead body of a young man he doesn t recognise, and Ellie s phone lying on the floor. Told partly from Leme s point of view, partly from Ellie s, Gringa takes us through five days during the redevelopment of the centre of São Paulo in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. Ellie s disappearance links characters at every level of the social hierarchy, from the drug dealers and civil and military police to the political class she witnesses the feral brutality of urban breakdown. Gringa, with shades of Don Winslow and James Ellroy, is a portrait of São Paulo in all its harshness and dysfunction, its corruption and social divisions, its kaleidoscopic dynamism, its undercurrent of derangement, and its febrile, sensual instability, executed with a deep knowledge of the city s anatomy.

Gringa (The São Paulo Quartet) (Mario Leme)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Arcadia Books

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