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The Storyteller
By Mario Vargas Llosa
Fiction, Literary | 279 pages
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A visitor from Peru, happening upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle in an obscure Florentine picture gallery, finds his attention drawn to a picture of a tribal storyteller seated among a circle of Michiguenga Indians. There is something odd about the storyteller. He is too light-skinned to be an Indian. As the visitor stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is his long-lost friend, Saul Zuratas, his classmate from university who was thought to have disappeared in Israel.
The Storyteller is a brilliant and compelling study of the world of the primitive and its place in our own modern lives.
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Judith Rich
"This is not an easy read by any means, but it repays the effort. The story of a Jewish man who has disappeared, told partly by himself and partly by his friend (chapters alternate, a device the same author used in "Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter"), who is living with a remote tribe in Amazonia, where he has become their Storyteller.
Everyone in the Amazonian village is called Tasurinchi. They are differentiated by description. It took me a couple of chapters to get my head around that.
The chapter in which the Storyteller tells the villagers the story of the Jewish people ("the People Who Walk") in terms relevant and understandable to them made me cry."
Everyone in the Amazonian village is called Tasurinchi. They are differentiated by description. It took me a couple of chapters to get my head around that.
The chapter in which the Storyteller tells the villagers the story of the Jewish people ("the People Who Walk") in terms relevant and understandable to them made me cry."
