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Where Tigers Are At Home (2011)

by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1907650164 (ISBN13: 9781907650161)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Dedalus Press

review 1: Six, not two or even three! This supposedly magnificent book has six stories and a cast of hundreds that come together at the end. Because readers cannot see the relationship between the stories, the average reader, who in addition to reading must live a life, will be disoriented and discouraged. In my desire to determine if it was worthwhile to plod ahead, I read a few reviews and discovered that the book contains very graphic violence and rape. That tipped the balance because what I read becomes such an integral part of me, that I decided against adding that experience to my life.
review 2: Jean-Marie Blas de Robles's "Where Tigers Are at Home" is a complicated epic novel that if you can follow is actually worth the read. The story which is primarily set in... more Brazil is a story within 2 or 3 beginning with the biography of 17th century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher whose story is the beginning of each individual chapter. From there, though, we delve into the real story that belonging to the family of Eleazard von Wogau as he writes the novel & the travels of his ex-wife & lesbian daughter. As each level of complexity unfolds throughout myriad tales of survival, sex & drugs, Blas de Robles weaves a story that is much interesting as it is at times confusing to keep things separate. If you can follow things & keep the timelines apart, this is a very good & well done novel. If not, though, mass confusion might ensue in this very different type of story that is one of the longer books of 2013. less

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