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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1985
  • Latest Book:
    August 2019
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Book List in Order: 13 titles











  • In a spare, elegiac tale, physician and novelist Scliar ( The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes , etc.) continues to probe the ethnic diversity of Brazil with a singular cast of nimbly and graphically limned characters. On a December night in 1970, the...



  • Focuses on one catastrophic day in the life of businessman Rafael Mendes, weaving together stories of his ancestors and occurrences of the present as Mendes learns how the past informs and shackles the present...





  • Max Schmidt, the son of a furrier, escapes from the Nazi authorities in his native Germany and boards a ship bound for Brazil, but when the ship sinks, he is stranded in a lifeboat with only a jaguar for company...






  • From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression und...



  • What if, as David William Foster poses in his introduction to Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar’s novel, the Germans did choose to invade the Americas in the second World War? What if the Luftwaffe did plan to bomb American cities? Wartime residents o...



  • in 1916, just before the russian revolution, Benjamin Kantarovitch, nicknamed “Mousy,” has been asked by a sick friend to deliver a message to an agent in Prague. Believing he was undertaking an important mission under direct orders by Leon Trots...



  • Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Moacyr Scliar has published 13 books.

Moacyr Scliar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Eden-Brazil, was published in August 2019.

The first book by Moacyr Scliar, The Centaur in the Garden, was published in February 1985.

No. Moacyr Scliar does not write books in series.