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Louis de Bernieres
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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
Автор: Louis de Bernieres Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20091992-12-26
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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.
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Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Автор: Louis de Bernieres Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement 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.
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Louis De Bernieres Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army… Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.
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A Partisan's Daughter
Автор: Louis De Bernieres Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20112011-05-12
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Chris is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night when he invites a hooker into his car. Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a hooker, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Автор: Louis De Bernieres Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092011-02-29
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This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army…Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Автор: Louis De Bernieres Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112009-12-07
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It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humourous — and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?
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Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
Автор: Louis De Bernieres Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20112012-07-18
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Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Based on de Bernieres' recollections of the village he grew up in, «Notwithstanding» is a funny and moving depiction of a charming vanished England.
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