At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig

A glorious travel book - Edward Marriot * The Sunday Times *
[Gimlette’s] account is so rich in anecdotes, so suffused in color and dialect that we are left with a sense of having somehow inhaled all this Paraguayan history and then experienced it through a nightmare or a dream. Gimlette has given us a cast of characters as vivid as any by Dickens or Waugh * New York Times *
Full of surprises, this is a riveting read * Sunday Telegraph *
Off the wall title, and a great off centre enjoyment, with a smashing, entertaining piece of writing… * Manchester Evening News *
John Gimlette’s extraordinary book, part history, part travelogue, is so vivid that nobody reading it is ever likely to forget the country. - Max Davidson * Daily Telegraph *
Colorful and meandering, by turns hilarious and horrifying, often delightful…and very, very odd… . An entirely faithful reflection of its subject * New York Times Book Review *
Gimlette knows his subject cold, and it’s a subject bound to have something for everyone … Charming and vivid… crammed full of a wild cast of characters and incredible experiences * San Francisco Chronicle *
A hilarious, informed anti-travelogue … with generous detail grounded in the author’s personal experiences, this is a travel book of the mind * The Boston Globe *

John Gimlette is a travel journalist and barrister. He won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award. He writes regularly for the Telegraph. He is currently writing his second book, Theatre of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador.

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