The News From Paraguay: A Novel Pdf Book ISBN-10 0066209447, ISBN-13 978-0066209

The News From Paraguay: A Novel

By autor: Lily Tuck
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For him it began with a bright blue parrot feather that fell from Ella Lynch's hat when she was horseback riding in the Bois de Boulogne. The year was 1854, and Francisco Solano Lopez -- "Franco," the future dictator of Paraguay -- began his courtship of the young, beautiful Irishwoman with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde.From Paris, Ella Lynch follows Franco to Asunción, w...

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (May 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0066209447
ISBN-13: 978-0066209449
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1736259
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu book

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This was a re-read for me. I was in the Peace Corps in Paraguay in the 1980's, and every so often I get an itch to go back to that environment. Lily Tuck's novelized account of the lives of Eliza Lynch and Francisco Solano Lopez is a good, if somewha...

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igns as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated dream -- one fueled by outsize imperial ambition and heedless arrogance, and with devastating consequences for Paraguay and all its inhabitants.A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, The News from Paraguay offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guaraní Indians.The urgency of the narrative, the imaginative richness of its intimate detail, and the wealth of characters whose stories are skillfully layered and unfolded recall the epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. The News from Paraguay captures the devastating havoc wrought on both a country's fate and a woman's heart by ruthless ambition and war.