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020			_a9780060934866
082	0		_aFIC TUC
100	1		_aTuck, Lily
245	1	4	_aThe news from Paraguay _c/ Lily Tuck
260			_aNew York _b: Perennial _c, c2004.
300			_a248 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aFor 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. A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, The News from Paraguay offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guarani Indians. The urgency of the narrative, the imaginative richness of its intimate detail, and the wealth of characters whose stories are skillfully layered and unfolded recall the epic novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. The News from Paraguay captures the devastating havoc wrought on both a country's fate and a woman's heart by ruthless ambition and war.
600	1	4	_aLopez, Francisco Solano _d, 1927-1870 _v--Fiction
600	1	4	_aLynch, Elisa Alicia _d, 1935-1886 _v--Fiction
650		4	_aParaguayan War _y--1865-1870 _v--Fiction
650		4	_aIrish _z--Paraguay _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen _z--Paraguay _v--Fiction
650		4	_aPresidents _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMistresses _x--Fiction
651		4	_aParaguay _v--Fiction
655		7	_aBiographical fiction
655		7	_aLove stories
942			_cMO
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