Book description
Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the
richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed
with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay.
The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her
across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future
in Ascuncion.
With the lavish imaginative richness of Marquez and the crazed
panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of
Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex,
beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She
has published one collection of stories,
The Portable Virgin
, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels,
The Wig My Father Wore
,
What Are You Like?
- shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and winner of the Encore
Award - and
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch
. Her first work of non-fiction,
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
, was published in 2004.
The Gathering
won the Man Booker Prize 2007.
