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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An unusual story, told from many perspectives but with great feeling. Very sad, too.

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Exciting and informative historical fiction. Good read.

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A National Book Award winner. A good book, but very sad.

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An amazing story - beautifully written and engaging!

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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.

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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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