Questa trilogia, vagamente collegata, è ambientata in un paese latinoamericano non specificato e fonde magistralmente realismo magico, umorismo nero e satira. La serie affronta temi seri come le dittature militari e gli eccessi dei servizi segreti, trattandoli tuttavia con leggerezza, ironia e acuta osservazione. I lettori incontreranno un vivace cast di personaggi, dall'élite corrotta agli abitanti dei villaggi determinati, in storie piene di svolte inaspettate, che spesso includono elementi fantastici. Offre una narrazione avvincente sulla lotta per la libertà e la giustizia in un mondo sull'orlo dell'assurdo.
This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny.
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.
While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation... The second part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.