The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
Format: paperback
ASIN: B000V59S4S
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Latin American
Series: Latin American Trilogy
I just put this book down and ran over to the computer to write the review before I lost the sense of joy it left me with. I know that this review is going to be a challenge for me though, because so much happened in this book and there were so many characters that if I focus on one thing, I’ll be l...
This is the first of de Bernieres' Latin American trilogy, set in a fictional South American country, heavily resembling Colombia (but with elements from many other Latin American countries as well). The plot follows multiple story lines and protagonists, including several villagers in the town of C...
In the 80's, there was a fun independent board game that we would sometimes play called Junta. You played a corrupt power elite family member who gets assigned a stereotypical role (General, guerrilla leader, etc.) in an anonymous banana republic. For all its light-hearted fun of its subject, the un...
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