The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

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...