{"product_id":"through-the-arc-of-the-rain-forest-book-karen-tei-yamashita-9780918273826","title":"Through the Arc of the Rain Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003eFluid and poetic as well as terrifying. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction. --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImpressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil. --\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another. --\u003ci\u003eLA Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmuses and frightens at the same time. --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world. --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpansive and ambitious . . . incredible and complicated. --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. . . . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine--all to good effect. --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe, rise to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters--both personal and ecological--that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThrough the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAnime Wong\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Coffee House Press. \u003ci\u003eI Hotel \u003c\/i\u003ewas selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian\/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49692721185041,"sku":"CIN091827382XVG","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49710941602065,"sku":"CIN091827382XG","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365635232017,"sku":"CIN091827382XA","price":6.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/091827382X.jpg?v=1751235572","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/through-the-arc-of-the-rain-forest-book-karen-tei-yamashita-9780918273826","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}