Jodorowsky Alejandro - The Son Of Black Thursday - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: From Alejandro Jodorowsky the legendary director of The Holy Mountain spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot and author of Where the Bird Sings Best comes another autobiographical tour - de - force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous 1930s. In Where the Bird Sings Best Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary autobiographical novel that NPR compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude and called a genius's surreal vision brought to life we followed Jodorowsky's predecessors as they fled to Chile amid a fantastical array of circuses Tarot Catholic and Jewish mysticism sexual extravagance political violence and the ghost of a wise rabbi serving as advisor. Now in The Son of Black Thursday Jodorowsky himself takes the stage as we re introduced to the unforgettable cast of his early years in Chile in the 1930s. We follow his father Jaime who's obsessed with assassinating the dictator he ends up serving; his mother Sarah a giantess who never speaks but communicates through operatic singing; his grandparents Ukrainian Jewish exiles fleeing persecution in the Ukraine; his twin sister who is made to suckle a mannequin until she is ten in order to silence her delirious speeches; among other creatures of every description as they struggle against the misery and oppression of the copper mines of the Chilean desert. As he's done across media from film to comics to mystic philosophy to fiction Jodorowsky once again demonstrates his boundless capacity for creating a universe of wonder horror humor magic and cosmic truth beyond our wildest imaginings. The Son of Black Thursday is a gripping novel from one of our most treasured masters.
Title: The Son Of Black Thursday
Author(s): Jodorowsky Alejandro
Publisher: Restless Books
Barcode: 9781632060532
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 11/6/2018
Category: Fiction In Translation