by Lily Tuck
At first I was intrigues with this book. The writing is descriptive and the details of life in Paris and South America at the end of the 19th century were interesting. The characters weren't very likeable (a woman who has renamed and reinvented herself several times, who is selfish and oblivious, an...
I think I read this in large measure because it was an award winner, and at the time, a few people were talking about it. That it dealt with a historical figure in Latin America also caught my eye. In my journal back then I wrote: >>. . .a historical novel about Paraguayan dictator 19th century dict...
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