Ashes of the Amazon

Tale of a Certain Orient and of The Brothers are published in Portugal, the UK, the US, Holland, France, Germany, Spain and Lebanon, as well as in Brazil. Both Tale of a Certain Orient and The Brothers received Brazil's prestigious Jabuti Prize in 1989 and 2000 respectively.

Translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson The major new novel by the prize-winning South American author, praised by A. S. Byatt, Alberto Manguel and many others.Mundo is a rebel - the embittered offshoot of a rich family, whose artistic vocation clashes with his father's dynastic plans. Ashes of the Amazon charts his determined flight from the fraught centre of his family's wealth - the Vila Amazonia plantation - through Rio de Janeiro, and then to the effervescent worlds of 1970s Berlin and London. In Ashes of the Amazon, Hatoum takes to heart Flaubert's injunction to write 'the moral history of his generation', with extraordinary results. This is a beautiful, mature and involving novel from one of the most important South American writers of his time.