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The News from Paraguay - Paperback

by Lily Tuck
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lily TuckPublish date:2022-06-09Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060934866ISBN-10:60934867UPC:9780060934866Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Biographical, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZDJK1ZBB

"Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country....The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic." -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Lily Tuck's impressive novel offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where European and American figures mix with the Spanish aristocracy of the capital and the indigenous peoples from the surrounding areas.

The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano--the future dictator of Paraguay--begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream--one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay.

With the urgency of the narrative, rich and intimate detail, and a wealth of skillfully layered characters, The News from Paraguay recalls the epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060934866ISBN-10:60934867UPC:9780060934866Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Biographical, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCZDJK1ZBB
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Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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