The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - Brossura

De Bernieres, Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0749398574 ISBN 13: 9780749398576

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1993

Riassunto

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 man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies.Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation...

'An extraordinary feat of imagination... a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity' Time Out

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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

'A novel of prodigious imagination' Scotland on Sunday

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0749398574
• ISBN 13: 9780749398576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 400