Gwen S. (corgi896) reviewed on 7/4/2011

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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