num_pages: 192
description: This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including 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 with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen 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.
language: English
title: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
titlecomplete: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
genres: Fiction, American, Magical Realism, Speculative Fiction, School, Read For School, Novels, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1272
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
publisher: Coffee House Press