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Where the Bird Sings Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jodorowsky, Alejandro.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture producers and directors--Fiction.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Theatrical producers and directors--Fiction.
- Theatrical producers and directors.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky--director of The Holy Mountain , star of Jodorowsky's Dune , spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot , innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons , and legend of Latin American literature. There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels--praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez--have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now. Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys' emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude , Jodorowsky's book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions.
- Contents:
- Intro
- One My Father's Roots
- Two My Mother's Roots
- Three The Farthest Land
- Four The Promised Pampa
- Five Jaime and Sara Felicidad
- About the Author and Translator.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781632060075
- 1632060078
- OCLC:
- 1310445557
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