The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Die wunderschöne, aus armen Verhältnissen stammende Irin Eliza Lynch macht im Paris der 60er Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts eine unglaubliche Karriere, die sie bis nach Südamerika führt.

Informationen zum Autor Anne Enright Klappentext A bold novel about sex, beauty, corruption and the end of the old world. "She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez" "The Observer" Zusammenfassung 'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph 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 Asunción. The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world. 'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times

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Auteur
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.

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A bold novel about sex, beauty, corruption and the end of the old world. "She writes like a shrewd Irish Marquez" "The Observer"

Résumé

'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily Telegraph

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 Asunción.

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.

'Wonderfully written...a fascinating episode...which never loses its momentum or its sharpness of focus' The Times