Where The Bird Sings Best

About Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla Chile. From an early age he became interested in mime and theater; at the age of 23 he left for Paris to pursue the arts and has lived there ever since. A friend and companion of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor he founded the Panic movement and has directed several classic films of this style including The Holy Mountain El Topo and Santa Sangre. A mime artist specialist in the art of tarot and prolific author he has written novels poetry short stories essays and over thirty successful comic books working with such highly regarded comic book artists as Moebius and Bess. Restless Books will be publishing three of Jodorowsky's best-known books for the first time in English: Donde mejor canta un pájaro (Where the Bird Sings Best) El niño del jueves negro (The Son of Black Thursday) and Albina y los hombres perro (Albina and the Dog Men).Alfred MacAdam is professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He has translated works by Carlos Fuentes Mario Vargas Llosa Juan Carlos Onetti José Donoso and Jorge Volpi among others. He recently published an essay on the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa included in the Cambridge Companion to Autobiography.