Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Bad News From Paraguay

I absolutely agree with the reviewers who were baffled by this novel's receipt of the National Book Award. "The News from Paraguay" is a one-dimensional, extremely violent narrative about a slice of Paraguayan history. The main characters, the dictator who plunges his country into war, and his Irish wife, a sort of Marie Antoinette figure, who longs for adventure so long as it comes with the trappings of Parisian society, are implausible, wooden and superficially realized. This could have been a great novel of historical fiction, like "Year of Wonders," but the author is content to give us a bloody Fodor travelogue. In sum, this novel is easy to dismiss, and unfortunately for Ms. Tuck, the news from Paraguay is very bad indeed.