# Under the Jaguar Sun

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- Book: [Under the Jaguar Sun](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/under-the-jaguar-sun) ([Under the Jaguar Sun.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/under-the-jaguar-sun.md))
- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4175-237-1
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun – into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest … The solar energy coursed along dense networks of blood and chlorophyll; I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun