by Louis de Bernières · MORROW. NY 1994 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749398576
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«The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman» is the novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Vintage in paperback (400 pages, in English).
In a South American country in crisis, President Veracruz and his peculiar community of ex-soldiers, ex-guerrillas, defrocked priests and reformed prostitutes embark on a wild pursuit of pleasure. Cardinal Guzmán, tormented by his demons, sees heresy in these festivities and decides to fight them with a new inquisition.
Third part of the Latin American trilogy, after «The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts» and «Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord».
For readers of magical realism and political satire with a sense of black humour.
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.
