Overview
In the tradition of such great Latin American magic realists as Jorge Amada, Sergio Kokis recreates the magic world of a child in Brazil.
The novel is told from the point of view of a Brazilian painter in exile somewhere in the northern climes - man who longs for the warmth and vibrancy of his childhood.
But his childhood and adolescence were not easy. Torn between a deeply religious (and superstitious) mother and his father, a man of science and reason, the young man survives his home life, life at boarding school, and life abroad to become an artist and a person in his own right.
Funhouse (Le pavillon des miroirs in French) has won four major literary awards in Quebec: Grand Prix du livre de Montr al, Prix de L'Acad mie des lettres du Qu bec, Prix Qu bec-Paris, and Prix Desjardins.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780889242869
- ISBN-10: 0889242860
- Publisher: Dundurn Press
- Publish Date: April 1999
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
- Page Count: 300
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