Bibliograph

Where the bird sings best, Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Macadam

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Where the bird sings best, Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Macadam

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

genealogical tables

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Where the bird sings best

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Alejandro Jodorowsky ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Macadam

Summary

In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile under fake passports and assumed Christian identities, with only a half-kopek to their name and no idea how they'd forge their new lives. His book is a visionary family saga filled with ancestors both mythical and real including bee-covered relatives, women who commune with wolves, snake charmers, and militant anarchists. Where the Bird Sings Best owes its title to Jean Cocteau's reflection: "A bird sings best on its family tree."

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