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The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
A Literary Fiction Novel by Anne Enright
Subgenres:
- Biographical Fiction,
- Historical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Historical fiction centered on infamous women rewriting their own legends
- Lushly detailed stories set in 1850s Paris and South America
- Political intrigue tangled with passionate, high-stakes relationships
A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering and Actress.
In the spring of 1854 in Paris, Francisco Solano López came to the house of Eliza Lynch to improve his French, or so he said. Eliza was nineteen, already with an ex-husband, and he was the young son of Paraguay's dictator in Europe recruiting engineers for South America's first railroad. By the time he returned to Asunción in 1855, Eliza was pregnant with his child.
In less than a decade, López plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious—as both the angel of the battlefield inspiring the troops, and the demon whose rapacious appetites drove López's fatal ambition. This is her story.
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