by Louis de Bernières · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749399627
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«Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord» is the magic realist and satirical novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Minerva in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Philosophy professor Dionisio Vivo finds mutilated corpses outside his house after publishing letters in the press denouncing the cocaine barons. With Ramón, one of the few honest policemen in town, he tries to dodge the hitmen sent to silence him and discovers that his revenge may endanger those he loves most.
It is the second instalment of Louis de Bernières' Latin American Trilogy and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992.
A novel for readers of satire, magic realism and social criticism, with a blend of humour and violence set in South America.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
