The Storyteller
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374270856 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 1989
Seeing a photograph of an Amazon tribal storyteller, a Peruvian writer becomes certain that the man is one of his old school friends and begins to imagine his transformation from the person he knew into a central member of the Machiguenga tribe. Reprint.
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The story of a Peruvian Jew, Saul -- an outsider by ethnicity and appearance -- as he is transformed from a conscience-stricken, modern man obsessed with the survival of the pre-modern peoples of the Amazon into a member of the tribe, indeed the tribal storyteller.
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