Panther Soup ‘This is a book about the appetites of war and peace – for food, sex, and human comfort – unbridled, sordid and somehow, in their ability to lead a civilisation back to itself, redeeming.’ The New Yorker   [More Reviews]

Theatre of Fish 'This is a dark book ... But it is also an exhilarating one, lit up by the vividness of the reporting, the sense of history it conveys, and the irresistible verve of Gimlette's prose. It told me a great deal I did not know and am glad to know, and entertained me greatly.' Tom Fort, The Sunday Telegraph   [More Reviews]

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig [Gimlette] writes with enormous wit, indignation and a heightened sense of the absurd, qualities that make him a particularly keen observer in this antique, often unlucky land ... His 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. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times [More Reviews]