Wendy is a Chartered Accountant living in Buckinghamshire. She is currently working as a contractor ...
Wendy is a Chartered Accountant living in Buckinghamshire. She is currently working as a contractor - this was undertaken to allow her to take time off between contracts to travel to parts of the world she is longing to see.
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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman is the hilarous sequel to The War of Don Emmanuels Nether Parts and continues the history of the surreal South American country which de Bernieres created in that book.
The president is still undertaking his bizarre search for sexual fulfilment with his ex-stripper wife, this time travelling to Paris for the fitting of a mechanical device to extend the length of his erections.
The government continue with their unbelievable corruption to govern the country in their inept manner, staging pretend assasinations,petioning FIFA to have a penalty decision against the country reversed and funding guerillas.
Cardinal Guzman is visited by a pantheon of private demons and in an effort to rid himself of them he launches a horrifying Inquisition upon the country. The Inquisition descend upon the unsuspecting populace to root out heresies and unbelievers.
The citizens of Cochadebajo de los Gatos continue to establish their idyllic neo-civilisation in the mountains, the ex-whores, ex-guerillas, de-frocked priest and giant black cats living their lives apart from the rest of the country. They entertain the British Ambassador, bring down a helicopter and finally come to a spectacular confrontation with the Inquisition.
I loved this book as much as Don Emmanuel and Captain Corelli, Louis de Berniers writing style is wonderful, his sense of humour is perverse and slightly black but very entertaining. The characters introduced in Don Emmanuel are here enlarged upon and we grow to love them even more, along with the new friends we meet.
This book is unlike anything else you will have read and is a wonderfully imaginative story which will keep you entertained throughout. I read it on holiday in about two days and loved it.
Enjoy.
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He is brilliant. A new De Bernieres book is long overdue. My favourite one is "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord" - I was thinking of re-reading and reviewing it ...unless you are going to beat me to it? :-)
Advantages: Witty and wise. Well-drawn characters. Amazing discriptions of places and people. Disadvantages: Complex story lines with an abundance of sub plots making it difficult to follow.
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