Book Club Meeting - Louis de Bernieres's first novel (public event)

This month's featured work is "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" by Louis de Bernieres.

According to the write-up on the cover's inside flap:

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.

"The War of Don Emilio's Nether Parts," de Bernieres's first novel, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize as well as the prize for Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991.  Many of you may be familiar with one of de Bernieres's later novels, the bestselling "Corelli's Mandolin."

See you there!