# Where the Bird Sings Best - Hardcover

by **Alejandro Jodorowsky** (Author), **Alfred MacAdam** (Translator)

**The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky--director of _The Holy Mountain_, star of _Jodorowsky's Dune_, spiritual guru behind _Psychomagic_ and _The Way of Tarot_, innovator behind classic comics _The Incal_ and _Metabarons_, and legend of Latin American literature.**

There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels--praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez--have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now.

_Where the Bird Sings Best_ tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys' emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like _One Hundred Years of Solitude_, Jodorowsky's book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, _Where the Bird Sings Best_ expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions.

### Author Biography

**Alejandro Jodorowsky** was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla, Chile. From an early age, he became interested in mime and theater; at the age of 23, he left for Paris to pursue the arts, and has lived there ever since. A friend and companion of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, he founded the Panic movement and has directed several classic films of this style, including _The Holy Mountain_, _El Topo_ and _Santa Sangre_. A mime artist, specialist in the art of tarot, and prolific author, he has written novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and over thirty successful comic books, working with such highly regarded comic book artists as Moebius and Bess. Restless Books will be publishing three of Jodorowsky's best-known books for the first time in English: _Donde mejor canta un pájaro_ (_Where the Bird Sings Best_), _El niño del jueves negro_ (_The Son of Black Thursday_), and _Albina y los hombres perro_ (_Albina and the Dog Men_).

**Alfred MacAdam** is professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He has translated works by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, José Donoso, and Jorge Volpi among others. He recently published an essay on the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa included in the _Cambridge Companion to Autobiography_.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.4 IN

**Publication Date:** March 31, 2015

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