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Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny.
Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Physical Desc
xiv, 331 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisioś letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for...
Author
Series
Latin American trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
xviii, 459 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cochadebajo de los Gatos is populated by eccentrics--and hundreds of tame black jaguars that love chocolate. The eccentrics have carved a wackily sane society out of the wilderness, but a traveling inquisition known as the New Albigensian Crusade, loosed by the corrupt Cardinal Guzman, threatens to destroy it.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Bernieres that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Bernieres brings us in Notwithstanding stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much-loved novels." "The...
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