- Cardinals, Church and state, Fiction, Inquisition
Despite Cardinal Guzman's efforts, life flourishes in Cochadebajo, with its improbable population of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests, reformed (though by no means inactive) prostitutes, a contingent of puzzled conquistadors, and an army of prodigious cats who smell of beer and dream of chocolate.
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Comic, epic, plot-driven and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Louis de Bernières
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- W. Morrow and Co., Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781299049192
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Louis de Bernieres was born in London in 1954. After graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. He has held various jobs: landscape gardener, mechanic, officer cadet at Sandhurst and schoolteacher in both Colombia and England. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.louisdebernieres.co.uk/about-1.html
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