The Encounter: Amazon Beaming - Softcover

Petru Popescu; Simon McBurney (foreword)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178227233X ISBN 13: 9781782272335

Publisher: Pushkin Press, 2016

Synopsis

1969: Loren McIntyre makes contact with the elusive Mayoruna 'cat people' of the Amazon's Javari Valley. He follows them - into the wild depths of the rainforest. When he realises he is lost, it is already too late.

Stranded and helpless, McIntyre must adjust to an alien way of life. Gradually, he finds his perception of the world beginning to change, and a strange relationship starts to develop with the Mayoruna chief - is McIntyre really able to communicate with the headman in a way that goes beyond words, beyond language?

Petru Popescu's gripping account of McIntyre's adventures with the Mayoruna tribe, and his quest to find the source of the Amazon, is reissued here to coincide with Complicite's acclaimed new stage production, The Encounter, inspired by McIntyre's incredible story.

Pushkin Press are reissuing The Encounter: Amazon Beaming, with a new foreword by Simon McBurney and cover designed by David Pearson, to accompany McBurney's and Complicite's dazzling, highly acclaimed stage production inspired by the book.

About this title

Review:

'[Petru Popescu] gives McIntyre's story the narrative drive of a thriller' Sunday Telegraph

'Eye-popping account' Daily Mail

'Blazing tale of mysticism and acculturation' Financial Times

'As powerful and mystical as any ancient epic... Travel writing in a class of its own: Heart of Darkness meets Walden' The Lady

'Strange and wonderful... Fascinating reading... A sort of Castaneda exercise in mystical and ecological inquiry' Kirkus Reviews

'An extraordinary, gripping tale' Publishers Weekly

'A fascinating tale of ethical and spiritual dilemmas' Wanderlust

Praise for Complicite's stage production:

'A tour de force that shows contemporary theatre at its most immersive and thought provoking' Financial Times

'Spellbinding' Telegraph

'An unforgettably brilliant work of total theatre' Herald

'So astonishing and inventive is this show that it feels like we're witnessing a real turning point in theatre, a performance that will be looked back on in years to come as hugely influential'

--The List

About the Author:

Born in Bucharest in 1944, Petru Popescu was Communist Romania's most provocative young novelist, before he was forced to defect and start writing in English. His Romanian novels Captured and Burial of the Vine are classics of the resistance against totalitarian art.

Moving to the United States, he wrote movies including The Last Wave and Death of an Angel, before returning full time to fiction. The Encounter: Amazon Beaming, Almost Adam, The Return, and The Oasis made him known worldwide. In The Encounter, the theme of exploring and winning one s freedom within oneself makes an unforgettable character from the discoverer of the Amazon s source, Loren McIntyre. Undoubtedly, freedom is Popescu's signature motif. Popescu is married to screenplay writer Iris Friedman, and they live in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 178227233X
• ISBN 13: 9781782272335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448