num_pages: 331
description: A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecilia, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a woman known only by an ideogram. Avalovara is an extraordinary novel, both in its depiction of modern life and in its rigorous, puzzlelike structure visually represented by a spiral and a five-word palindrome.
language: English
title: Avalovara
titlecomplete: Avalovara
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Brazil, Romance, Literature, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press