num_pages: 288
description: ‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial Times Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernières' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the bodies that keep turning up outside his front door.  To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen 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.
language: English
title: Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
titlecomplete: Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Latin American, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, 20th Century
ratings_count: 4656
places: South America
series: Latin American Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Random House Inc