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De Zuid-Amerikaanse Trilogie

Deze losjes verbonden trilogie speelt zich af in een niet nader gespecificeerd Latijns-Amerikaans land en combineert op meesterlijke wijze magisch realisme met zwarte humor en satire. De serie behandelt serieuze thema's zoals militaire dictaturen en excessen van geheime diensten, maar doet dit met een luchtige toon, ironie en scherpe observatie. Lezers kunnen een levendige cast van personages verwachten, van de corrupte elite tot vastberaden dorpelingen, in verhalen vol onverwachte wendingen, vaak met fantastische elementen. Het biedt een meeslepend verhaal over de strijd voor vrijheid en rechtvaardigheid in een wereld die op de rand van de absurditeit balanceert.

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