The news from Paraguay
Subtitle: a novel
By: Lily Tuck.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: López, Francisco Solano, 1827-1870 -- Fiction; Lynch, Elisa Alicia, 1835-1886 -- Fiction; Paraguayan War, 1865-1870 -- Fiction; Irish -- Paraguay -- Fiction; Women -- Paraguay -- Fiction; Presidents -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction; Paraguay -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "For him it began with a bright blue parrot feather that fell from Ella Lynch's hat when she was horseback riding in the Bois de Boulogne. The year was 1854, and Francisco Solano Lopez - "Franco," the future dictator of Paraguay - began his courtship of the young, beautiful Irishwoman with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde." "From Paris, Ella Lynch follows Franco to Asuncion, where she reigns as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated dream - one fueled by outsize imperial ambition and heedless arrogance, and with devastating consequences for Paraguay and all its inhabitants."--BOOK JACKET.