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At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay | John Gimlette

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Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid tourist. It doesn't even have its own guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new travel book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Diana, Princess of Wales, as if she were still alive and hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War. Their politics are Byzantine but when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. Discover more about the unique traditions of South American culture through this fascinating piece of travel journalism.

Bookworm54

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay | John Gimlette

so-so

FINALLY finished this #FoodAndLit #Paraguay read!

Should I have bailed? Absolutely 😂 but I was so far through I persevered, especially since there aren‘t many Paraguay books in English.

Anyway it was okay. I learnt a bit, but I struggled with the narrative and never knew what period I was reading about, who that person was, and so on 😂

Texreader, Catsandbooks

Texreader So impressed! I‘ve waded through books in the same sort of confusion so good for sticking it through!! 1y

Catsandbooks Nice job! 🙌🏼 1y

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GoneFishing

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay | John Gimlette

Youth had rallied, too late, to register its protest at the Church, the army, and everything. They'd set up a den called the Urban Cave on the merchants' quarter, where they could loose off fusillade after fusillade of rap and self-indulgent anger.

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