{"product_id":"9781590515631","title":"Where Tigers Are at Home: A Novel","description":"Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter abandons school to travel with her young professor and her lesbian lover to an indigenous beach town, where the trio use drugs and form interdependent sexual relationships; and Eleazard himself starts losing his sanity, escalated by loneliness, and his work on the biography. Patterns begin to emerge from these interwoven narratives, which develop toward a mesmerizing climax.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and the European Book Award, and already translated into 14 languages, \u003ci\u003eWhere Tigers Are At Home\u003c\/i\u003e is large-scale epic, at once literary and entertaining, that belongs in the company of Umberto Eco and Haruki Murakami.","brand":"Other Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134234935536,"sku":"9781590515631","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590515631_p0.jpg?v=1763803788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590515631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}