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锘匡豢Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the 糖心logo入口, announces the publication of Eden-Brazil by Moacyr Scliar, translated by Malcolm N. McNee

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the 糖心logo入口, announces the publication of Eden-Brazil by Moacyr Scliar, translated by Malcolm N. McNee.

Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat, trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath of coastal rainforest. Inspired to provide visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, snake, apple, the works. But recreating an earthly paradise as something more than another roadside attraction is no easy feat. In this charming, tragicomic tale, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humor and talent for crisp storytelling, weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals clashing with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.

"Scliar鈥檚 voice is a fresh one, his artistic roots as firmly fixed in Jewish tradition and mythology as they are in Brazil鈥檚 literary history."鈥�The Washington Post

鈥淥ne of Brazil鈥檚 most celebrated novelists and short-story writers鈥濃��The New York Times

Moacyr Scliar(1937鈥�2011) was one of Latin America鈥檚 most important contemporary writers, and his novels and stories were awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes and published in over 20 countries. Malcolm K. McNee is associate professor of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies at Smith College. 

Eden-Brazilis volume 7 of the Brazilian Literature in Translation Series, edited by D谩rio Borim and Cristina Mehrtens.

To purchase Eden-Brazil, please visit the University of 糖心logo入口 Press website by clicking .

For more information, please contact Mario Pereira, Executive Editor, at mpereira6@umassd.edu.