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March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
832 pages
ISBN: 1590515625
EAN: 9781590515624
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Fiction Family Life
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel
follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th
century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French
correspondent, through modern Brazil.
When
Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of
Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his
ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato
Grosso; his daughter abandons school to travel with her
young professor and her lesbian lover to an indigenous beach
town, where the trio use drugs and form interdependent
sexual relationships; and Eleazard himself starts losing his
sanity, escalated by loneliness, and his work on the
biography. Patterns begin to emerge from these interwoven
narratives, which develop toward a mesmerizing
climax.
Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and
the European Book Award, and already translated into 14
languages, Where Tigers Are At Home is large-scale
epic, at once literary and entertaining, that belongs in the
company of Umberto Eco and Haruki Murakami.
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