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Using the same ebullient storytelling, luxuriant writing, and irrepressible eroticism he delivered to The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts and Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernières continues his share of Cochadebajo, the Andean town where assertive philosophers, defrocked priests, and cool (although barely sedentary) hookers cohabit in pleasant anarchy. But this rowdy paradise is imperiled once the devil-harried Cardinal Guzman chooses to inaugurate a brand new Inquisition, with Cochadebajo as its supreme target.       On his part, the Cardinal posseses an army of fans who're alltoo prepared to ruin systems to be able to save people. The Cochadebajeros have important little ammo, if you don't rely cook Doloresis incendiary Poultry of the Correct Guy, and a civil protection that believes nothing more essential compared to work of love. Part epic, part farce, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman confirms de Bernières's status as England's response to Gabriel García Márquez.