Laughing in the face of death; Books.(Review)

The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | March 2, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: JAMES DELINGPOLE

At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette Hutchinson pound sterling14.99 .pound sterling11.99 (0870 165 0870) ****

John Gimlette, the barrister author of this travelogue about Paraguay, has a neat way with violent and hideous death.

'Argana was swimming in his entrails,' he says, describing yet another Paraguayan assassination. 'Young men were vaporised in shell-bursts and their shreds pinned up in trees. Others were unexpectedly lopped and pruned and died in the open, peeled alive by ants,' he writes of the almost ...

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