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Author:
Louis de Bernieres
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780749398576
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EAN: 9780749398576
Published: 5 Mar 2009
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...
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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 Bernières writes superbly
- Catholic Times
Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter.
