Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." --New York Times Book Review"Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle"Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." --Village Voice"Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." --LA Weekly"Amuses and frightens at the same time." --Newsday"Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." --Booklist (starred review)"Expansive and ambitious . . . incredible and complicated." --Library Journal"This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. . . . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine--all to good effect." --Publishers WeeklyA Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasan