When a young man is shot in a small South American village, it heralds the start of a series of sudden tragedies - of floods and ugly lampoons, which remind the villagers of the decomposition of their social order. This is an evocation of corruption, both political and individual.
- ISBN10 0224032364
- ISBN13 9780224032360
- Publish Date 7 November 1991 (first published 1 January 1900)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 181
- Language English