Lily Tuck is the author of seven novels: SISTERS; THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE; I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS; INTERVIEWING MATISSE OR THE WOMAN WHO DIED STANDING UP; THE WOMAN WHO WALKED ON WATER; SIAM OR THE WOMAN WHO SHOT A MAN, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY, winner of the National Book Award; as well as the short-story collections THE HOUSE AT BELLE FONTAINE; LIMBO, AND OTHER PLACES I HAVE LIVED; and HEATHCLIFF REDUX AND OTHER STORIES; and the biography WOMAN OF ROME: A Life of Elsa Morante. In 2018, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Books by Lily Tuck

The News from Paraguay: A Novel

by Lily Tuck

The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream -- one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay.