Where Tigers Are at Home
Blas De Robles, Jean-Marie / Mitchell, Mike 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 When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling-his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso, his daughter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...