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Through
the Arc of the Rain Forest
Novel
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Janet Heidinger Kafka Award Winner
American Book Award Winner
Utne Reader:
“Bizarre
and baroque, funny and sad. Yamashita's novel may
say more about saving the rain forest than its nonfiction
counterparts do.”
New York Times Book Review:
“Yamashita
presents a critique of human waste and stupidity
that is fluid and poetic as well as terrifying.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review:
“Humorous
and exuberant melodrama, a satire on science, philanthropy,
marketing research, corporate climbing, and pop evangelism.”
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 the birds of Brazil.
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