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Trilogie Sud-Américaine

Cette trilogie librement connectée se déroule dans un pays latino-américain non spécifié, mêlant magistralement réalisme magique, humour noir et satire. La série aborde des thèmes sérieux tels que les dictatures militaires et les excès des services secrets, mais les traite avec légèreté, ironie et observation aiguë. Les lecteurs découvriront une galerie de personnages vibrants, de l'élite corrompue aux villageois déterminés, dans des récits pleins de rebondissements inattendus, incluant souvent des éléments fantastiques. Elle offre un récit captivant sur la lutte pour la liberté et la justice dans un monde au bord de l'absurdité.

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
The war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts
Senor Vivo and the coca lord

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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. Despite 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 civilization. "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts is the first novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1991.

    The war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts
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    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.

    Senor Vivo and the coca lord
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    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.

    The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman