Island of Point Nemo. Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
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Praise for Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
“Those of you who stay with Blas de Roblès’s ultimately quite satisfying novel will find yourselves with a new European literary star to steer by.”
—Alan Cheuse, NPR
“Psychodrama meets history meets mystery—vintage Umberto Eco territory, as practiced by French philosophy professor turned novelist Blas de Roblès.”
—Kirkus
“This encyclopedic and mystifying novel, full of picaresque adventures, delights and fascinates. . . . A marvelous, dizzying galaxy, spiraling to the end of the novel.”
—Le Figaro littéraire
“This dazzling book is itself such a mountain, overflowing with visions that dramatically enlarge the reader’s imaginative horizons.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Blas de Roblès simultaneously channels Umberto Eco, Indiana Jones, and Jorge Amado.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Where Tigers Are at Home is a great enough work that I would gladly travel through its treacherous pages again.”
—Rain Taxi Review of Books
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JEAN-MARIE BLAS DE ROBLÈS
Where Tigers Are at Home
Copyright © Zulma, 2014
Translation copyright © Hannah Chute, 2017
First edition, 2017
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Available.
ISBN-13: 978-1-940953-63-2
Cet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre d’un programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien de la Mission Culturelle et Universitaire Française aux Etats Unis, service de l’ambassade de France aux Etats Unis
This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the Mission Culturelle et Universitaire Française aux Etats Unis, a department of the French Embassy in the United States
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For Elaine
“We all died at the age of twenty, without realizing it.”
—André Hardellet
Contents
I. The Mystery of the Three Feet
II. Breathtaking View of a Worker’s Backside
IV. A Lovely Odor of Roasted Turnips
VIII. Dead Stars above the Bed
IX. The Diamond and Its Reflection
X. A Bit of Fog on the Lenses of His Glasses
XIII. I Survived the Terror of Russian Sex
XIV. The Bitter Poison of Evil Passions
XX. A Flaming Rabbit is a Horrible Thing
XXIII. The Scorpions Loathe the Living
XXIV. A Horrible Disease Had Disfigured Her
XXVI. Giving the Finger to the Iron Locker
XXVII. Too Well Hung to Impregnate a Girl
XXIX. The Three-Jeweled Eunuch