War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
  • Published: 1 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780749391300
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $28.99

War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

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The first of Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic, hilarious trilogy set in a fictional South American country.


‘Surreal and hilarious’ Independent

Enter Louis de Bernières' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

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 civilisation…
  • Published: 1 September 1991
  • ISBN: 9780749391300
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $28.99
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About the author

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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Also by Louis de Bernieres

Light Over Liskeard
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Station Jim
Labels and Other Stories
So Much Life Left Over
The Autumn of the Ace
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
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Praise for War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

A very good book indeed, the sharpest and funniest I have read in quite some time

Financial Times

A fat, juicy, tropical fruit of a narrative... There is astonishing landscape. There are numerous good jokes. And, indispensably in such a novel, there is magic

Independent on Sunday

A wonderful mixture of the mythical and the poetic, of the cruel and clinical aspects of life... I have seldom read a finer first novel. It is one to savour and revisit

Scotland on Sunday

Sureal and hilarious [...] perfect for anyone lucky enough to be on an South American gap year

Katy Guest, The Independent

A tour de force

Time Out