Where Tigers Are at Home: A Novel

Author: Jean-Marie Blas de Robles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 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 When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling-his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter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...Read more