The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts,9780375700132

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780375700132
ISBN10: 0375700137
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-07-29
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Louis de Bernieres' novels include <b>The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts</b> (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), <b>Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord</b> (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and <b>The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman</b>. The author, who lives in London, was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists 1993.

Table of Contents

AUTHOR'S NOTE 7(6)
1. CAPITAN RODRIGO FIGUERAS'S FINEST HOUR
13(9)
2. IN WHICH DONA CONSTANZA EVANS RESOLVES TO SAVE THE SWIMMING POOL FROM DROUGHT
22(7)
3. IN WHICH FEDERICO'S ROMANTIC GESTURE TAKES ON WIDER IMPLICATIONS
29(6)
4. IN WHICH SERGIO GRAPPLES WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE CANAL
35(7)
5. REMEDIOS AND THE PISTACOS
42(8)
6. THE GENERAL PLANS HIS LEAVE
50(7)
7. DON EMMANUEL'S INEFFECTIVE DIPLOMACY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
57(7)
8. AURELIO IS DISINHERITED
64(8)
9. THE TRIBULATIONS OF FEDERICO
72(7)
10. COMANDANTE FIGUERAS DISRUPTS A FIESTA
79(9)
11. AURELIO'S EDUCATION AMONG THE NAVANTES
88(7)
12. FEDERICO IS TAUGHT TO BE A GUERRILLA AND GENERAL FUERTE IS CAPTURED
95(7)
13. THE ONLY WAY TO TURN A CAMPESINO INTO A GUNMAN
102(8)
14. PARLANCHINA GOES TO HER WEDDING
110(9)
15. GENERAL CARLO MARIA FUERTE IS TRIED FOR CRIMES AGAINST CIVILIZATION
119(9)
16. DONA CONSTANZA RECEIVES AN UNWELCOME SURPRISE
128(9)
17. A LETTER HOME
137(8)
18. THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FORCE CONFOUNDS THE PEOPLE'S VANGUARD AND THE NATIONAL ARMY IN ONE STROKE
145(8)
19. IN WHICH JOSEF CONTEMPLATES DEATH AND PLANS ARE MADE
153(7)
20. THE INNOCENTS
160(8)
21. HOW DONA CONSTANZA FALLS IN LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND LOSES SEVERAL POUNDS
168(9)
22. IN WHICH COLONEL RODRIGO FIGUERAS FORGETS THE FIRST TWO PRINCIPLES OF WAR AND IMPERILS HIS PROSPECTS
177(10)
23. THE UNOFFICIAL MONARCHY OF THE CATHOLIC KINGS
187(8)
24. GLORIA AND DONA CONSTANZA HATCH A PLOT
195(12)
25. THE TWO VIRGINS
207(8)
26. THE BLOSSOMING OF COLONEL ASADO
215(8)
27. OF CURES, CATS, AND LAUGHTER
223(8)
28. THE BATTLE OF CHIRIGUANA
231(8)
29. COLONEL ASADO MAKES A LITTLE MISTAKE
239(8)
30. THE RETURN OF MARIA AND THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIERS
247(9)
31. THE CONTINUING EFFORTS OF OLAF OLSEN, COLONEL ASADO, AND HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT
256(9)
32. EXODUS
265(7)
33. THE ECONOMIC MIRACLE AND THE INCARAMA PARK
272(8)
34. GENERAL FUERTE ENJOYS THE HOSPITALITY OF THE ARMY INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICE
280(9)
35. THE PRESIDENT DISCOVERS THE APHRODISIAC PROPERTIES OF REDUCING THE MILITARY
289(7)
36. XXXDE TU CASA A LA AGENA, SAL CON LA BARRIGADA LLENA!
296(8)
37. NEMESIS: GENERAL FUERTE CALLS IN ON THE ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE
304(8)
38. DAYS OF WONDERS, DAYS OF DEBILITATION
312(11)
39. HIS EXCELLENCY BECOMES AN ADEPT AND BEGETS A MAGICAL CHILD
323(8)
40. THE THREEFOLD ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL CARLO MARIA FUERTE
331(9)
41. THE BEGINNING OF THE POSTDILUVIAN HISTORY OF COCHADEBAJO DE LOS GATOS
340(8)
42. THE OBSEQUIES OF GENERAL CARLO MARIA FUERTE
348(8)
43. GIFTS OF LIFE
356

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