The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (Latin American Trilogy, 3)

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (Latin American Trilogy, 3)

by Louis De Bernieres (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 29 Apr 1993

ISBN 10: 0749398574
ISBN 13: 9780749398576
Book Overview: 'A novel of prodigious imagination' Scotland on Sunday

Media Reviews
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 Bernieres writes superbly * Catholic Times *
Author Bio
Louis de Bernieres is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. His most recent novels are Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter.