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| #418146 in Books | Coffee House Press | 1990-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.50 x5.40l,.68 | File type: PDF | 212 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoyable, Ambitious Novel|By Sophie|A very enjoyable read. This book reminds me of those strange and meandering novels (like Tom Robbins) except with an environmental bent, but not with the heavy-laden activist tone of early Carl Hiaasen. It is a great book with several interweaving plots and quite a bit of magical realism. Some parts of it are laugh out loud funny.
From Publishers Weekly|This satiric morality play about the destruction of the rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. First-novelist Yamashita blends the matter-of-fact surrealism of Garcia Marquez, bizarre science fiction twis
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough to be frightening. In the Author's Note," Karen Tei Yamashita writes that her book is like a Brazilian soap opera called a novela: "the novela's story is completely changeable according to the whims of the public psyche and approval, although most likely,...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Through the Arc of the Rain Forest | Karen Tei Yamashita.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
