Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

Award-winning French novel set in Brazil including the biography of Kircher

La vie de Manuel Cortès pourrait sembler emblématique de l''histoire de l''Algérie : de l''immigration des parents de Manuel, taverniers d''origine espagnole, jusqu''à leur départ dans l''urgence de

Eléazard Von Wogau, héroe inquieto de este fascinante bosque de historias cruzadas, es corresponsal francés afincado en la antigua ciudad colonial de Alcântara. Recibe el encargo de editar un descono

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 When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling--his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter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