Haven to Nazis, smugglers' paradise, home to some of the earth's
oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is
a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at
last it has one. With an adventurer's sang-froid, a historian's
erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on
it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror and-yes-charm of South
America's obscure and remote "island surrounded by land."
He takes readers from genteel drawing rooms in Asuncion-where
ladies still gossip about the nineteenth-century Irish adventuress
who became Paraguay's Empress to the "Green Hell" of the Chaco, a
vast, inhospitable tract populated by aging Mennonites and
discouraged Indians. Replete with eccentrics and scoundrels,
ecologically minded cannibals and utopians from every corner of the
earth, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig" "is a madly entertaining
book.
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