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This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling "Corelli's Mandolin" is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Doñ a Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny.
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With The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts Louis de Bernières's sardonic pen has concocted a spicy olla podrida of a novel, set in a fictitious Latin American country, with all the tragedy, ribaldry and humour Bernières can muster from a debauched military, a clueless oligarchy and an unconventional band of guerrillas. There's a plague of laughing, a flood of magical cats and a torture-happy colonel. The cities, villages, politics and discourse are an inspired amalgam of Latin Americana, but the comedy, horror, adventure and vibrant individuals are pure de Bernières. This masterpiece, the first of a trilogy, is followed by Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. --James Barry
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"A very good book indeed, the sharpest and funniest I have read in quite some time" (Financial Times)
"A fat, juicy, tropical fruit of a narrative... There is astonishing landscape. There are numerous good jokes. And, indispensably in such a novel, there is magic" (Independent on Sunday)
"A wonderful mixture of the mythical and the poetic, of the cruel and clinical aspects of life... I have seldom read a finer first novel. It is one to savour and revisit" (Scotland on Sunday)
"Sureal and hilarious [...] perfect for anyone lucky enough to be on an South American gap year" (Katy Guest The Independent)
"A tour de force" (Time Out)
"A fat, juicy, tropical fruit of a narrative... There is astonishing landscape. There are numerous good jokes. And, indispensably in such a novel, there is magic" (Independent on Sunday)
"A wonderful mixture of the mythical and the poetic, of the cruel and clinical aspects of life... I have seldom read a finer first novel. It is one to savour and revisit" (Scotland on Sunday)
"Sureal and hilarious [...] perfect for anyone lucky enough to be on an South American gap year" (Katy Guest The Independent)
"A tour de force" (Time Out)
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0375700137
- ISBN 13 9780375700132
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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