The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

The Pleasure of Eliza LynchThe Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron. Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lo pez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him. Reviled by Asuncio n society and the family of her lover, who

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay's Eva Peron. Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lo pez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him. Reviled by Asuncio n society and the family of her lover, who never married her, Eliza nevertheless had he son baptized his heir. In less than a decade, Lo pez became dictator and 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 driving Lo pez's ambition-and when Lo pez was killed in battle, she buried him in a shallow grave dug with her own hands. Anne Enright has written a gorgeous, deeply resonant novel."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/03/2004
ISBN: 9780802141194
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.52w x 0.64d