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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

Louis de Bernieres
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman Book PDF

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822383

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The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

With the same ebullient storytelling, luxuriant prose, and irrepressible eroticism he brought to The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts and Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernières continues his chronicle of Cochadebajo, the Andean village where macho philosophers, defrocked priests, and reformed (though hardly inactive) prostitutes cohabit in cheerful anarchy. But this unruly utopia is imperiled when the demon-harried Cardinal Guzman decides to inaugurate a new Inquisition, with Cochadebajo as its ultimate target. On his side, the Cardinal has an army of fanatics who are all too willing to destroy bodies in order to save souls. The Cochadebajeros have precious little ammunition, unless you count chef Dolores's incendiary Chicken of a True Man, and a civil defense that deems nothing more crucial than the act of love. Part epic, part farce, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman confirms de Bernières's reputation as England's answer to Gabriel García Márquez.

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822369

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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

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.

Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord

Louis de Bernières
Senor Vivo The Coca Lord Book PDF

Author : Louis de Bernières
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019079

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Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord by Louis de Bernières Pdf

‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial Times Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernières' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the bodies 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 realises that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge.

Birds Without Wings

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368874

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Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences. But with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the onset of the Great War, the sweep of history has a cataclysmic effect on this peaceful place: The great love of Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty, and Ibrahim, a Muslim shepherd who courts her from near infancy, culminates in tragedy and madness; Two inseparable childhood friends who grow up playing in the hills above the town suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the bloody struggle; and Rustem Bey, a wealthy landlord, who has an enchanting mistress who is not what she seems. Far away from these small lives, a man of destiny who will come to be known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is emerging to create a country from the ruins of an empire. Victory at Gallipoli fails to save the Ottomans from ultimate defeat and, as a new conflict arises, Muslims and Christians struggle to survive, let alone understand, their part in the great tragedy that will reshape the whole region forever.

So Much Life Left Over

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524747893

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So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends whose world was torn apart by the First World War. Some were lost in battle, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended, scattered to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, all are trying to pick up the pieces. At the center of Louis de Bernières’s riveting novel are Daniel, an RAF flying ace, and Rosie, a wartime nurse. As their marriage is slowly revealed to be built on lies, Daniel finds solace—and, sometimes, family—with other women, and Rosie draws her religion around herself like a carapace. Here too are Rosie’s sisters—a bohemian, a minister’s wife, and a spinster, each seeking purpose and happiness in her own unconventional way; and Daniel’s military brother, unable to find his footing in a peaceful world. Told in brief, dramatic chapters, So Much Life Left Over follows the stories of these old friends over the decades as their paths re-cross or their ties fray, as they test loyalties and love, face survivor’s grief and guilt, and adjust to a new world.

A Partisan's Daughter

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368867

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A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan’s Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London. While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world – from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito’s Partisans through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London. A Partisan’s Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read. Here is another wonderful novel from the author of the bestselling Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières
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Author : Louis de Bernières
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446499207

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières Pdf

**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS** 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily Mail It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals but over time he proves himself to be civilised, humorous – and a consummate musician. When Pelagia, the local doctor's daughter, finds her letters to her fiancé go unanswered, Antonio and Pelagia draw close and the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender? 'Louis de Bernières is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh...he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste' Evening Standard

Notwithstanding

Louis de Bernières
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Author : Louis de Bernières
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409086703

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Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernières Pdf

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Based on de Bernières' recollections of the village he grew up in, Notwithstanding is a funny and moving depiction of a charming vanished England.

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Louis de Bernieres
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord Book PDF

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822376

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Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

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.

Red Dog

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345804952

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Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

In 1998, Louis de Bernieres—acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin—came upon a bronze statue in a town on Australia’s northwestern coast and was immediately compelled to know more about “Red Dog.” He did not have to go far: everyone for hundreds of miles in every direction seemed to have a story about Red Dog. He was a Red Cloud Kelpie, a breed of sheepdog known for its energy and cleverness. But Red Dog was a kind of ultra-Kelpie, energetic and clever enough for an entire breed in himself. Dubbed a “professional traveler” rather than a stray, Red Dog established his own transportation system, hitchhiking between far-flung towns and female dogs in cars whose engine noises he’d memorized and whose drivers he’d charmed. The call of the wild was matched by the call of the supper dish; Red Dog’s appetite was as legendary as his exploits. Everyone wanted to adopt him (one group of workers made him a member of their union), but Red Dog would be adopted by—or, more precisely, he would adopt—only one man: a bus driver whose love life quickly began to suffer and who never quite recovered from Red Dog’s relentlessly affectionate presence. Independent, clever, sly, stubborn, courageous and foolhardy, impatient with boredom and the boring, Red Dog endeared himself to (almost) everyone who crossed his path. These funny, surprising, and touching stories of his life are certain to endear him to every reader.

Contemporary British Novelists

Nick Rennison
Contemporary British Novelists Book PDF

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781134604708

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Contemporary British Novelists by Nick Rennison Pdf

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.

Louis de Bernières

Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds
Louis de Berni res Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448138944

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Louis de Bernières by Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds Pdf

In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Louis de Bernières. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernières, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide will deal with de Bernières' themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all four novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complimentary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

The Dust That Falls from Dreams

Louis de Bernieres
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Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101946497

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The Dust That Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin, here is a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes for its aftermath. In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh sisters—Christabel, Ottilie, Rosie and Sophie—grow up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. On one side, their neighbors are the proper Pendennis family, recently arrived from Baltimore, whose close-in-age boys—Sidney, Albert and Ashbridge—shake their father’s hand at breakfast and address him as “sir.” On the other side is the Pitt family: a “resolutely French” mother, a former navy captain father, and two brothers, Archie and Daniel, who are clearly “going to grow up into a pair of daredevils and adventurers.” In childhood this band is inseparable, but the days of careless camaraderie are brought to an abrupt halt by the outbreak of The Great War, in which everyone will play a part. All three Pendennis brothers fight in the hellish trenches at the front; Daniel Pitt becomes an ace fighter pilot with his daredevil tendencies intact; Rosie and Ottilie McCosh volunteer in the hospitals, where women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the men at the front; Christabel McCosh becomes one of the squad of photographers sending “snaps” of their loved ones at home to the soldiers; and Sophie McCosh drives for the RAF in France. In the aftermath of the war, as “the universal joy and relief were beginning to be tempered by . . . an atmosphere of uncertainty,” everyone must contend with the modern world that is slowly emerging from the ashes of the old. A wholly immersive novel about a particular time and place, The Dust That Falls from Dreams also illuminates the timeless ways in which men and women carry profound loss alongside indelible hope.

Red Dog

Nancy M. Gillespie
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Author : Nancy M. Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 0646562959

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Red Dog by Nancy M. Gillespie Pdf

RED DOG is a short story by Nancy Gillespie and a collection of anecdotes and poetry written by several people of the Pilbara region, chronicling the life and travels of the Red Dog. Colonel Cummings is documented as the Red Dog's original owner, and later John Stazzonelli took ownership before dying in a motorcycle accident. The Red Dog, not knowing that Stazzonelli had died, went looking for him... across Western Australia's Pilbara region. Pictures of the Red Dog are featured in the book, including a map charting the many places the Red Dog had visited. Originally published in 1983, being the first book about Red Dog.

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900

Clive Bloom
Bestsellers Popular Fiction Since 1900 Book PDF

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030791544

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Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 by Clive Bloom Pdf

This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.