The News from Paraguay

Winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction, Lily Tuck''s The News from Paraguay is an impressive novel that offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where European and American figures mix with the Spanish aristocracy of the capital and the indigenous peoples from the surrounding areas. The Irish courtesan Ella Lynch, courted in Paris by the future dictator of Paraguay, follows him to Asuncion where she reigns as his mistress. Isolated and a bit lost in this new world, she embraces her lover''s ill-fated dream--one fueled by outsized ambition and heedless arrogance, and with devastating consequences for Paraguay and all its inhabitants.

About the author

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Lily Tuck, Tuck Lily
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780060934866
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093486-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Biographical, FICTION: World Literature / Europe (General), FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / French, FICTION: World Literature / France / 21st Century