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Carregando... The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (1990)de Louis de Bernières
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book is funny and clever; violent and tragic; bawdy and disheartening; sometimes all at the same time. It is full of magical realism and situations so far fetched they ring 100% true. The author's second book set in this fictitious South American landscape is on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list, and I look forward to reading it. This is the novel that hooked me on de Bernieres. This is the first of a trilogy of magic realist novels set in an unnamed country in South America. The second and third have equally intriguing titles; they are, respectively, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lords, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The characters feature the somewhat boorish don of the title, rebels, spoiled and subsequently unspoiled indolent female landowners who become (by virtue of the power of love) something significantly different, a cast of large and relatively docile panthers, various corrupt and not-so-corrupt army men, a native South American man very much in touch with the spirit world and a resurrected conquistador. The tone is musing, humorous and yet tinged with grim horror and sadness; there are laugh out loud moments and episodes you wish had not happened. The themes are universal. Heartily recommended, as are the equally enjoyable second and third books. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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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.Despit 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The characters conform to type on the whole. The peasants are clever, the whores full of common sense, the soldiers brutish and stupid - apart from the ones who are saintly - the politicians self- aggrandising, and the forest-dwellers spiritual. But this in no way spoils the story, which is best read as a magical fable. Justice prevails in the end, the good live happily ever after, and the evil receive their just deserts. A book that demands not to be put down before it's finished. ( )