The News from Paraguay

Lily Tuck · 2004 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Ella Lynch, an Irish courtesan from Paris, goes with the Paraguayan dictator's son Francisco Solano Lopez to Asuncion in 1854 and becomes the country's mistress in all but name. Short fragments, some invented and some borrowed from documents, trace the course of the Paraguayan War that destroyed it. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

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