![]() Max is forced to leave Nazi Germany after he and his friend, Harald, have an affair with Frida, whose husband denounces them to the secret police for inappropriate behaviour. Forgive me, if you can, this spoiler (or skip the blockquote entirely): Scliar's novel Max And The Cats is a great read. ![]() Making his way to Brazil, his ship sinks, and he finds himself alone in a dinghy with a jaguar who had been travelling in the holdĪ shipwreck, alone in a dinghy on the open sea with a ferocious cat, eventual rescue. Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young Jewish man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. ![]() Moacyr Scliar, a Brazilian writer who passed away last year, in 2011. ![]()
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