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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman Louis de Bernieres

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman By Louis de Bernieres

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernieres


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Summary

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies that must be challenged.

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman Summary

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernieres

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

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman Reviews

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 Bernieres writes superbly * Catholic Times *

About Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter.

Additional information

GOR000400479
9780749398576
0749398574
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernieres
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1993-04-29
400
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