| Avalovara Contributor(s): Lins, Osman (Author), Rabassa, Gregory (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1564783200 ISBN-13: 9781564783202 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecilia, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a woman known only by an ideogram. Avalovara is an extraordinary novel, both in its depiction of modern life and in its rigorous, puzzlelike structure visually represented by a spiral and a five-word palindrome. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002019294 |
| Series: Latin American Literature Series |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 331 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecilia, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a woman known only by an ideogram. Avalovara is an extraordinary novel, both in its depiction of modern life and in its rigorous, puzzlelike structure visually represented by a spiral and a five-word palindrome. |