War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts

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‘Surreal and hilarious’ IndependentEnter Louis de Bernières’ magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them.Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them, they must run. Thus they plan to head for the mountains and start a new and convivial civilisation…

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Weight 0.266 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Language

Pages

384

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Year Published

1991-6-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0749391308

About The Author

Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter, a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

A very good book indeed, the sharpest and funniest I have read in quite some time

Other text

A fat, juicy, tropical fruit of a narrative… There is astonishing landscape. There are numerous good jokes. And, indispensably in such a novel, there is magic

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