The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
$28.31
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1993
Summary
‘A novel of prodigious imagination’ Scotland on Sunday
The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.
But for Cardinal Guzman, a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749398576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749398574 |
| Author: | Louis de Bernieres |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1993 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Latin American Trilogy |
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A carnival of pain and pleasure, violence, tenderness, high jinks of every sexual sort, quaint customs and quainter jokes
A carnival of pain and pleasure, violence, tenderness, high jinks of every sexual sort, quaint customs and quainter jokes * Financial Times *An extraordinary feat of imagination… a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity * Time Out *Mr de Bernières writes superbly * Catholic Times *
About The Author
Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Berni res is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter.
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