Against the backdrop of the Brazilian coast, a disenchanted biologist and various other unusual characters wind up searching together for an explanation for the strange changes in the local flora and fauna. By the author of An Invincible Memory.
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From Publishers Weekly
Acid satire and magic realism, erotic raunchiness and spiritualism, fantasy and ecological protest are seamlessly melded in Brazilian novelist Ribeiro's sprawling, exotic, loquacious, captivating novel. Ana Clara is bored with her loveless marriage to health minister Angelo Marcos Barreto, a crass, sexist, racist homophobe (who nevertheless has a gay affair). She adopts a literary persona, "Suzanna Fleischman," and under that pseudonym produces reams of erotic musings that lead to a very funny parody of Molly Bloom's famous "Penelope" soliloquy in Ulysses . Ana Clara's affair with tormented, shy Joao Pedroso, a biologist-turned-fishmonger, results in her pregnancy and culminates in a murder. Meanwhile, through a lame witch doctor, Joao stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering project at a local hospital which apparently has produced monstrous hybrids in an attempt to cross humans with chimpanzees. The struggle to unmask and shut down this project pits Dr. Lucio Nemesio, a heartless materialist, against Father Monteirinho, a humanistic priest for whom bioengineering and cruelty to animals are forms of evil. In sensuous, luxuriant prose, beautifully translated, Ribeiro ( An Invincible Memory ) blends sexual, political and social satire in ways that few American writers even attempt.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Brazilian journalist-turned-writer Ribeiro's third novel in English is a fast-paced, nimbly rendered, erotic, and exotic saga of a menage a trois involving a dreary wife, her corrupt cacique husband, and her scientist/fisherman lover, with a startling finale. Set in the same northeastern locale as the works of Ribeiro's well-known compatriot Jorge Amado (War of the Saints, LJ 12/93), the work examines the underpinnings of contemporary Brazilian society. The intentional confusion of novelistic genres-melodrama, mystery, science fiction-coated over with a generous dose of satire and Bahian sorcery, recalls both the experimental technique of his Sergeant Getulio (LJ 1/15/78) and the fictional rechronicling of Brazilian history in An Invincible Memory (LJ 3/1/89). Recommended for sophisticated readers.
Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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