Early in the novel, it’s revealed that two men from the U.N. The primary tension and driving force behind the plot is the Father General’s interrogations into what happened to Sandoz. The novel jumps back and forth in space and time, and consists of Emilio’s present condition, while being nursed by the priests, and his flashbacks to how he met his friends and what happened to them on Rakhat. The Father General of the Society of Jesus, Vincent Giuliani, and two other priests look after Emilio as he slowly heals mentally, physically, and emotionally from the trauma he experienced on Rakhat. It’s made clear that he is the sole survivor of a Jesuit mission trip to Rakhat, a planet in Alpha Centauri.
Father Emilio Sandoz is introduced as being so ill that he can’t speak or uncurl from the fetal position. The story opens in Rome, in the year 2059.
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