The War
of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
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 the plan to head
for the mountains and start a new convivial civilisation.
‘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 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
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