Research Catalog

Title

Where tigers are at home / Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès ; translated by Mike Mitchell.

Author

Blas de Roblès, Jean-Marie, 1954-

Publication

Sawtry, Cambs. : Dedalus, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mitchell, Mike (Translator)

Description

741 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Where Tigers are at Home is a large-scale (approx 265,000 words in translation) multi-strand novel set in Brazil. The strands are interwoven through the central figure Eléazard von Wogau, a French foreign correspondent living in Alcântara, a town in the north-east of Brazil; they also vary widely in style and content: his divorced wife Elaine, a geologist, takes part in a scientific expedition to the Mato Grosso which is attacked by drug traffickers; some members are killed, Elaine and others set off on a trek through the uncharted jungle;his daughter, Moéma, is a student in São Luís, a drug addict, with an interest in native tribes; she takes part in the local ‘beach culture’ where she has an affair with an Indio; she also meets; Nelson, a young handicapped boy from the favela; his father was killed in an accident in the local steel works, at which he was immediately evicted from their tied home; he vows vengeance on the owner;Colonel Moreira, the corrupt governor of the region who is involved in shady property deals for a large-scale development which will involve expelling locals from their territory..."--Publisher website.

Uniform Title

Là où les tigres sont chez eux. English

Alternative Title

Là où les tigres sont chez eux.

Subject

• Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680 > Fiction
• Foreign correspondents > Brazil > Fiction
• French fiction > Brazil
• Science > History > Fiction
• French > Brazil > Fiction
• Brazil > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History
• Epic fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1907650164
• 9781907650161

OCLC

• 767579798
• SCSB-12550603

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library