The centaur in the garden - by Moacyr Scliar

In the confines of the southern interior of Brazil, in a peaceful family of Jews who clear the forest to build a farm, a strange being is born who, due to his singularity, is destined for a singular path. He's a centaur, half man and half horse. The strangeness of his appearance separates him from the world of men. His human soul, his aspiration to live with others, irresistibly tie him to society. What can be the fate of a centaur in the world of men?

Through this fable Moacyr Scliar, one of the most prominent contemporary Brazilian writers, exposes in an exemplary way before our eyes the contradiction between our condition of social being and the need to affirm our individuality. Revealing a brilliant imagination, which creates the most unexpected situations and resolves them in the happiest way, with a rich and fluent style, The Centaur in the Garden, which Caminho is now republishing, will be a revelation for many Portuguese readers. With this novel, Moacyr Scliar won the 1980 São Paulo Art Critics Association award for best work of fiction.