Death Comes for the Archbishop is a literary fiction book by author Willa Cather.
The epic novel is about a simple human life in the stillness of the Southwest desert.
In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour arrived as apostolic vicar in New Mexico. What he found was a vast territory of red hills and winding mountain ranges, American by law but Mexican and Indian by custom and creed. Forty years later, Latour spread his faith the only way he knew how, facing an unforgivable landscape, derelict and openly rebellious priests, and the loneliness of his own life. he.
Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time seems to hang.
