The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay\'s Eva Peron.
Reviled by Asuncio n society and the family of her lover, who never married her, Eliza nevertheless had.
He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him.
Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lo pez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America.
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a dazzling novel from a writer of international caliber, based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay\'s Eva Peron