β Scribed by Anne Enright
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prizeβwinning author of The Gathering.
In the spring of 1854 in Paris, Francisco Solano LΓ³pez 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 AsunciΓ³n in 1855, Eliza was pregnant with his child.
In less than a decade, LΓ³pez plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notoriousβas both the angel of the battlefield inspiring the troops, and the demon whose rapacious appetites drove LΓ³pez's fatal ambition. This is her story, in which "Enright artfully explores the power of beauty and the beauty of power, and finds them remarkably...
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