News from Paraguay: A Novel by Lily Tuck
	List Price:   $13.95 Unit Price:   $11.16 You Save:   $2.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060934867 ISBN-13:   9780060934866 Publisher:   HarperCollins; Harper Perennial Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   December 2004 Pages:   272 Format:   Paperback
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The year is 1854. 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 Asuncion 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 Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of three previous novels-Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water, and the Pen/Faulkner finalist Siam-and a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Fiction, The Paris Review, and the Antioch Review. She lives in New York City. 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 ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asuncion 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 Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, 'The News from Paraguay' offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guaran' Indians.