Ashes of the Amazon

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  • Author: Milton Hatoum
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Catalogue: 182890
  • Size: 13x20cm
In Ashes of the Amazon, Milton Hatoum takes to heart Flaubert’s injunction to write ‘the moral history of his generation’, with extraordinary results. The book itself was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Prize, and is the story of a long rebellion and the struggle to understand it.

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.

This is a beautiful, mature and involving novel from one of the most important South American writers of his time.