Through the arc of the rain forest - Karen Tei Yamashita

Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying.

-- New York Times Book Review Dazzling .

a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction.

-- San Francisco Chronicle Impressive .

a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil.

-- Village Voice Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another.

-- LA Weekly Amuses and frightens at the same time.

-- Newsday Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world.

-- Booklist (starred review) Expansive and ambitious .

incredible and complicated.

-- Library Journal This 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.

-- Publishers Weekly A 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.

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel , and Anime Wong , all published by Coffee House Press.

I Hotel was 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.