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Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

by Paul Auster (Translator), Pierre Clastres (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

In the 1960s the anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent a year with a so-called "savage" tribe of Indians in Paraguay. This is his account of that experience, describing the tribe's daily life and habits, ritual and cosmology - and the anger which caused them to start murdering their own children.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1st Faber & Faber Edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 22 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0571193986
ISBN 13: 9780571193981

Author Bio
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.