Description

This rambunctious first book from the writer of the best-selling Corelli's Mandolin is placed within an impoverished, violent, however ravishingly gorgeous nation anywhere in South Usa. If the haughty Dona Constanza chooses to move a river to fill her pool, the effects are in once heroic, sad, and outrageously hilarious. "Walks a dangerous border between pathos and slapstick, never once dropping its balance."--Washington Post Book World.