Where Tigers Are at Home by Blas De Robles, Jean-Marie

Where Tigers Are at Home (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590515624)

Vendor: Jean-Marie Blas De Robles
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$32.50
$32.50
$32.50
Subtotal: $32.50
Where Tigers Are at Home by Blas De Robles, Jean-Marie

Where Tigers Are at Home

$32.50
Where Tigers Are at Home by Blas De Robles, Jean-Marie

Where Tigers Are at Home

$32.50
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
Winner of the Prix M dicis, 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When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling--his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter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.

Author: Jean-Marie Blas De Robles
ISBN-10: 1590515625
ISBN-13: 9781590515624
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.81lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.58w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012
Booklist 02/01/2013 pg. 32
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2013
Library Journal 02/15/2013 pg. 90
By Jean-Marie Blas De Robles
By Jean-Marie Blas De Robles
x
Born in 1954, Jean-Marie Blas de Robl鑚 was a lecturer in philosophy at universities in Brazil, China, and Italy and, finally, for the Alliance Fran軋ise in Taiwan. His first literary publication was a volume of short stories in 1982, followed by two novels, after which he turned to writing full time. An avid traveller, Blas de Robl鑚 also edits a series of books on archaeology, and is a member of the French Archaeological Mission.

Mike Mitchell has translated over fifty titles including works by Goethe, Meyrink, Adolf Loos, and Oskar Kokoschka. Several of his translations have been shortlisted for awards, including three short listings for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Most recently Mitchell has been shortlisted for the Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Thomas Bernhard's Over All the Mountain Tops. In 1998, he was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for best German translation for Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China.

Recently Viewed Products