Avalovara
By Osman Lins
1973
First Published
4.23
Average Rating
360
Number of Pages
A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecilia, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a woman known only by an ideogram. Avalovara is an extraordinary novel, both in its depiction of modern life and in its rigorous, puzzlelike structure visually represented by a spiral and a five-word palindrome.
Avg Rating
4.23
Number of Ratings
136
5 STARS
58%
4 STARS
18%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
2%
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