"Late in de Roblès' remarkable novel, a tribal shaman chants, "Soon the Messenger will guide us to that mountain where visions cascade down uninterruptedly." This dazzling book is itself such a mountain, overflowing with visions that dramatically enlarge the reader's imaginative horizons." - Booklist (starred review) "Psychodrama meets history meets mystery-vintage Umberto Eco territory, as practiced by French philosophy professor turned novelist Blas de Roblès." - Kirkus "This encyclopedic and mystifying novel, full of picaresque adventures, delights and fascinates…Umberto Eco revised by Malcolm Lowry for Indiana Jones, with a bit of 'The African Queen' and Claude Levi-Strauss in Amazonia…An 800 page chameleon. A marvelous, dizzying galaxy, spiraling to the end of the novel." -Patrick Grainville, Le Figaro littéraire "Jean-Marie Blas de Robles toys with illustrious references and manhandles magical realism with bookish irreverence. Where Tigers Are At Home is a work of ruckus erudition, and an enormously ambitious and amusing palimpsest." -Clara Dupont-Monod, Marianne "[A] freewheeling narrative that mixes adventure yarn, magic realism, social comment, political satire, high ideas, popular culture and a standard injection of sadism and sex.
Long in the making, this clever, exuberant philosophical novel [shows] that we do not live in a protected Eden but in a land where power is king and tigers are more at home than we are." - David Coward, Times Literary Supplement "Blas de Roblès simultaneously channels Umberto Eco, Indiana Jones, and Jorge Amado.what begins as a faux metabiography turns to picaresque adventure with erotic escapades, scams, and unexpected changes of fortune.this sprawling novel depicts 'the absurdity beneath which the criminal stupidity of men generally hides.'" - Publishers Weekly.