Where the Bird Sings Best

Jodorowsky, Alejandro

ISBN 10: 1632060280 / ISBN 13: 9781632060280

Published by Restless Books, 2015

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Synopsis:

The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky - director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky's Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.

There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic and Kanye West, his novels - praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez - have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now.

Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys' emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jodorowsky's book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions.

About the Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla, Chile. At 23, he left for Paris to pursue theatre and the arts, and has lived there ever since. His classic films include The Holy Mountain, El Topo, Santa Sangre and, most recently, The Dance of Reality. A prolific author, he has written novels, poetry, short stories, essays and more than 30 successful comic books.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Where the Bird Sings Best
Publisher: Restless Books
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good