The News From Paraguay

Name: The News From Paraguay
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lily Tuck
ISBN: 9781456124250

Author: Lily Tuck

Narrator: Lisette Lecat

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/25/2011

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck is the author of several novels: The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Katrina on 2008-02-25 11:41:25

This was a worthwhile historical novel. It kept my attention and had interesting characters, setting, and taught me a little bit about that interesting country and interesting times.

Goodreads review by robin

An Unsuccessful Historical Novel There is always a tension in reading a historical novel between the "history" and the "fiction". In her author's note, to her National Book Award novel, "The News from Paraguay", Lily Tuck acknowledges this tension and attempts to resolve it by saying: "Nouns always t......more

Goodreads review by Dennis

This was an ok book; I'd have liked to give it a better mark but it was so inconsistent and unsatisfying in some parts that I couldn't. Basically, this is an "historical novel/romance" that can't really decide what it is. There's not enough information to call it historical and very little romance.......more