The Summons

[The Summons]
Year: 
2002
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
Vintage
Year of publication: 
2012
Pages: 
384
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Ray is a university law professor who has just been divorced. He receives a letter from his father, widowed, elderly and very ill, summoning him and his only brother to discuss his will. Ray goes and finds that his father has passed away... and some boxes containing three million dollars. The entire novel is dedicated to locating the source of this money.

The book is an invitation for the reader to reflect on his attitude towards his parents, children and siblings. And, above all, his attitude towards money. Those three million, in hundred-dollar bills, have an attraction over Ray, as seductive as the attraction that any of us feel towards riches. This novel is, like the parables of the Gospel, a good opportunity to make a good examination of conscience.

Author: Fernando Acaso, Spain
Update on: Mar 2024