Where the Bird Sings Best

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The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru in the back of Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator in the back of classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.

There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, writer, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling number of creative fields. Even as his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels—praised all the way through Latin The united states in the similar breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez—have remained in large part unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now.

Where the Bird Sings Best tells the incredible story of the Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jodorowsky’s book transforms circle of relatives history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions.

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