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The News from Paraguay
The News from Paraguay
Author: Lily Tuck
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 Asunci?n and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover'...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739451595
ISBN-10: 0739451596
Pages: 248
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2.6 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Harper Collins
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
Took me a long time (like 80 pages) to really adapt to the writing style. There are many, many characters and their introductions are brief. However, I'm glad I stuck with it because it is an amazing, frustrating, scenic story. It is an historical fiction and really interesting.
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Helpful Score: 2
Exciting and informative historical fiction. Good read.
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Helpful Score: 2
A National Book Award winner. A good book, but very sad.
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Helpful Score: 2
An unusual story, told from many perspectives but with great feeling. Very sad, too.
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Helpful Score: 1
An amazing story - beautifully written and engaging!
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 seafarer avatar reviewed The News from Paraguay on + 3 more book reviews
A wonderful novel, exhaustively based on original sources, given an absolutely magnificent reading by a brilliant actress, Lisette Lecat. If this were not a first-rate novel, it would still be well worth listening to just for the pleasure of experiencing a virtuoso performance by Lisette Lecat.
corgi896 avatar reviewed The News from Paraguay on
This is a National Book Award finalist written was a historical fiction that was fascinating. In 1851, the flamboyant son of the dicator of Paraguay meets a beautiful Irish courtesan in Paris. He brings her back to his country,she bears his children and lives through the ambitions, and devastating wars of that time. Since I knew so little of South America, this was like a history lesson,too. So well written you are drawn into the characters and environments

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