Where Tigers Are at Home

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When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling--his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 03/05/2013
ISBN: 9781590515624
Pages: 832
Weight: 2.81lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.58w x 2.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012
Booklist 02/01/2013 pg. 32
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2013
Library Journal 02/15/2013 pg. 90