A glorious new novel from the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, set at a time when the modern world was just beginning to define itself.
Louis de Berni res' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Se-or Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The author was selected as one of the Granta twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli's Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book, 1995. His most recent book is Red Dog.
"I loved its rich, relaxed humanism and was much moved by this expa nsive tale" Boyd Tonkin, Independent "it draws a big dramatic canvas embellished with jihad and passion, religion and nationalism, and of course, lots of love" Katherine Sale, Financial Times
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