At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig - Travels Through Paraguay

"Colorful and meandering, by turns hilarious and horrifying, often delightful. . .and very, very odd. . . . An entirely faithful reflection of its subject." -- The New York Times Book Review “[Gimlette’s] account is so rich in anecdotes, so suffused in color and dialect that we are left with a sense of having somehow inhaled all this Paraguayan history and then experienced it through a nightmare or a dream. Gimlette has given us a cast of characters as vivid as any by Dickens or Waugh.” -- The New York Times “Gimlette knows his subject cold, and it’s a subject bound to have something for everyone . . . Charming and vivid. . . crammed full of a wild cast of characters and incredible experiences.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “A hilarious, informed anti-travelogue . . . with generous detail grounded in the author’s personal experiences, this is a travel book of the mind.”-- The Boston Globe "Blends travelogue, history and flights of descriptive whimsy to highly tonic effect. . . . For all his mastery of Paraguayan history, it's Gimlette's extravagant prose and unhinged enthusiasm that make the book. . . . You couldn't ask for a more entertaining guide." -- The Seattle Times "Hilarious. . . . What keeps you reading about Paraguay, maybe in spite of yourself, is Gimlette's marvelous wit and eye for character." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Reading the book is like watching a Komodo dragon eat a tethered goat. Paraguay, as Gimlette portrays it, is . . . completely bizarre. . . . Conquistadores and Nazis, whores and cannibals, all of them rather awful, all of them splendidly rendered. . . . Graham Greene would have approved.” -- National Geographic Adventure “A glorious travel book . . . in which the country’s craziness is portrayed with humor, insight and considerable deftness of touch. . . . As a historian of the absurd [Gimlette] is superlative.” -- The Sunday Times (London) "A wildly entertaining read: a raucous blend of history, travelogue, and guide." -- Conde Nast Traveler " At The Tomb of the Inflatable Pig should be ranked among the very best explorations of its kind: at once a history and a guide to one of the least hospitable nations on earth." -- The Washington Times "Irreverent and rambunctious. . . . [A] superior travel book." -- Foreign Affairs “An extraordinary book, part history, part travelogue . . . so vivid that nobody reading it is ever likely to forget the country. . . . A book that sheds fascinating light on a forgotten corner of Latin America’” -- The Daily Telegraph (London) “A richly detailed catalog of oddities and horrors, the kind of eccentricities that flourish in isolation. . . . [Gimlette] spills Paraguay’s cruelest, most shameful secrets, but his admiration for the forlorn middle country is real on every page.” -- Outside "Howlingly entertaining. . . . There [is] no resisting Gimlette's rollicking account." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "A truly wonderful exploration of one of the world's most captivating countries ... Brilliant." -- Sunday Express "[A] wonderful, wacky book. . . . Filled with the offbeat and the bizarre. Gimlette's narrative attempts to flesh out a country that is as difficult to define as nailing Jell-O to a wall. Vivid, riotous, fascinating and never dull, his book is wildly entertaining." -- The Tucson Citizen "Compelling. . . . Blackly comical. . . . Spicy, exuberant prose." -- Mail on Sunday (London) "Eccentric and richly descriptive. . . . The best travel writers are those with both a sense of history and a sense of humor, and Gimlette qualifies on both counts." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch “[Gimlette] has a firm gra Informationen zum Autor John Gimlette Klappentext Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of t...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Gimlette
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.03.2005
• EAN: 9781400078523
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-7852-3
• Pagine: 362
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Vintage Departures; Vintage Departures
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Antiquariato; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio