Lily Tuck

This article is about Lily Tuck, an author who received an American book award for her fiction novel regarding Marshal Francisco Solano Lopez. The book seems to be quite sexually graphic and portrays Lopez as an arrogant man who brings Paraguay into a terrible war. It turns out that the author never actually visited Paraguay before writing the book.

This seems to me a very irresponsible way to write a book, especially if it is a book on historical fiction. The author does not have enough respect for the country's culture and history, and it is quite ignorant of her to write a book without even a basic experience of what the countryside is like. How authentic can this book be?