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 When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished  biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his  ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his  daughter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.

Where Tigers Are at Home

Literature & Fiction

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

Literary

Dedalus Press

La Ou Les Tigres Sont Chez Eux (Litterature Generale) (French Edition)

Contemporary

J'Ai Lu

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