The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
Reeks: Vintage International
Louis de Bernieres
- 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.
- "Walks
- a
- precarious
- edge
- between
- slapstick
- and
- pathos,
- never
- once
- losing
- its
- balance."--Washington
- Post
- Book World.
