This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance."--Washington Post Book World.
- ISBN10 0375700137
- ISBN13 9780375700132
- Publish Date 29 July 1997 (first published 6 August 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House USA Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780375700132