A powerful tale of house arrest in the Argentina of the sixties, when the military junta ruled, The Flight of The Tiger chronicles the peasants? struggle to overcome tyrants and the forces that have brought them into their homes. Moyano uses music as a metaphor for freedom. When the despot bans one musical key, the people change their pitch, and so multiply their powers to resist. "A dazzling metaphorical imagination is energetically displayed.... A funny, original book...." ? Kirkus Reviews
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A powerful tale of house arrest in the Argentina of the sixties, when the military junta ruled, The Flight of The Tiger chronicles the peasants? struggle to overcome tyrants and the forces that have brought them into their homes. Moyano uses music as a metaphor for freedom. When the despot bans one musical key, the people change their pitch, and so multiply their powers to resist. "A dazzling metaphorical imagination is energetically displayed.... A funny, original book...." ? Kirkus Reviews
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. CE2-A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good-condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear with some yellowing of the paper edges plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back endpaper plus there is some light rubbing andn surface chipping at thebottom spine edges, the spine near the bottom edge and on the front near the spine edge at the bottom, and on the back on the right side of the barode. Translated from the Spanish and with an afterword by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. A surrealistic black humor novel that examines the pervasiveness of oppression. Oppressors appear in a small village in the form of percussionists who hate silence and cats. The villagers resist and as the oppressors take each repressive step, the villagers multiply their own powers to resist. By the author of "The Devil's Trill." 175p.
