A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay’s Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering an

Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lp̤ez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He le

Escaping a desperate marriage at the age of 20, Eliza Lynch fled Ireland to Paris where her extraordinary beauty and intelligence won the attention of the soon-

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What h

The first monograph-length study of Irish expatriate fiction in an era of transition from American to East Asian global hegemony.