Where The Bird Sings Best

"Where the Bird Sings Best is Alejandro Jodorowsky’s brilliant, mad and unpredictable semi-autobiographical novel. Translated by Alfred MacAdam, this multigenerational chronicle introduces a host of memorable characters, from a dwarf prostitute and a floating ghost-Rabbi to a lion tamer who eats raw meat and teaches his beasts to jump through flaming hoops. Fantastical elements aside, Where the Bird Sings Best is a fiercely original immigration tale that culminates in the author’s birth in Chile in 1929 — a complicated time in that nation’s history. Combine that with poetry, tarot and Jewish mysticism and you have a genius’s surreal vision brought to life."