Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Informationen zum Autor 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 The Dust That Falls From Dreams, So Much Life Left Over and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels , the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef . Klappentext Minerva reissue with new jacket. Zusammenfassung ‘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.

Product details

• Authors: Louis de Bernieres, Louis de Bernieres, Louis de Bernières
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.1992
• EAN: 9780749399627
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9962-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Latin American Trilogy; Latin American Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; South America, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Satire, Narrative theme: Social issues, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary