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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 When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOther Press
Release dateMar 5, 2013
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Jean-Marie Blas de Robles

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès was born in Sidi-Bel-Abbès in Algeria but now lives in the South of France. He studied history and philosophy at university and has subsequently been a teacher of French literature and a writer. He has participated in the underwater explorations of the French Archaeological Mission in Libya and was the founder of the publication house Édisud, dedicated to bringing archaeology to a wider public.

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