NBA Winner: The News from Paraguay

Lily Tuck has won the National Book Awards for her novel, The News from Paraguay, an historical epic that tells the story of two lovers during a war in 19th century Paraguay.

There was some amount of backlash over the fact that all the authors shortlisted for the NBA fiction award were little-known women authors living in New York City. Lily Tuck, however, was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award in 2000 and is the author of three previous novels.

Read an excerpt of The News from Paraguay.
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