EDEN-BRAZIL [Paperback]

Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath of coastal rainforest. Inspired to provide visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, snake, apple, the works. But recreating an earthly paradise as something more than another roadside attraction is no easy feat. In this charming, tragicomic tale, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humor and talent for crisp storytelling, weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals clashing with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.

MOACYR SCLIAR(19372011) was one of Latin America's most important contemporary writers, and his novels and stories were awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes and published in over twenty countries.MALCOLM K. MCNEEis associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Smith College.

1. Introducing My Friend, Adamastor
2. Adamastors Project
3. Eden-Brazil Is Born
4. Introducing an Ambitious Young Actor: Myself
5. Adamastor Makes His Proposal, Decent or Indecent
6. I Start to Get into the Spirit of Things
7. Eden-Brazil Opens to the World, Though without the Reciprocal Being True
8. The End of the Dream?
9. Enormous Moon in the SkySmall Light at the End of the Tunnel
10. The Descendant of Peri
11. The New Production Begins
12. Gettingby Force of DestinyReal
13. An Ending That Might Even Be Considered Happy

Translators Note

Scliar's voice is a fresh one, his artistic roots as firmly fixed in Jewish tradition and mythology as they are in Brazil's literary history.The Washington Post