by Jacques Lanzmann · Lattes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782709612562
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«Le dieu des papillons» is the adventure novel by Jacques Lanzmann, published by Lattès in paperback (279 pages, in French).
In the Amazon, a baby appears suspended from a tree and the Mayana Indians receive him as the awaited messiah. Around the Child-King, passion, violence and madness break out: Carniceiros, head of the sugar cartel, wants to kill him; entomologist Jost Sanderson tries to adopt him. Only old Xuxui knows the legend of the butterfly god.
The novel was originally published in 1993; the action takes place in Brazil. The cover bears the subtitle «roman».
For readers of adventure and suspense novels set in the jungle, with indigenous legends and intense characters.
Jacques Lanzmann was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc.
