Esta trilogía, conectada de forma laxa, se desarrolla en un país latinoamericano no especificado, mezclando magistralmente el realismo mágico con el humor negro y la sátira. La serie aborda temas serios como las dictaduras militares y los excesos de los servicios secretos, pero los trata con ligereza, ironía y aguda observación. Los lectores encontrarán un elenco vibrante de personajes, desde la élite corrupta hasta aldeanos decididos, en relatos llenos de giros inesperados, que a menudo incluyen elementos fantásticos. Ofrece una narrativa cautivadora sobre la lucha por la libertad y la justicia en un mundo al borde del absurdo.
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.