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Through
the Arc of the Rain Forest
A
novel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Winner,
Janet Heidinger Kafka Award
Winner,
American Book Award
"Bizarre
and baroque, funny and sad. Yamashita’s novel may say
more about saving the rain forest than its nonfiction
counterparts do." - Utne Reader
"Yamashita
presents a critique of human waste and stupidity that
is fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." - The
New York Times Book Review
"Humorous
and exuberant melodrama, a satire on science, philanthropy,
marketing research, corporate climbing, and pop evangelism."
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
This
freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of
characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating
six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with
three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the
art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather.
By the end of this hilarious tale, they have risen to
the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters
- both personal and ecological - that destroy the rain
forest and all teh birds of Brazil.
Karen
Tei Yamashita is author of Brazil-Maru, one of the Village
Voice 25 Best Books of the Year, and Through the Arc
of the Rain Forest, winner of the American Book Award
and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. Her works have
been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. A native
of California, she is teaches at the University of California,
Santa Cruz.
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