At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette

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.

He works as an attorney in London, where he and his family reside. This is his debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9781400078523
ISBN 10	1400078520
Title	At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig
Author	John Gimlette
Series	Vintage Departures
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage
Year published	2005-03-08
Number of pages	400
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