Böcker av Milton Hatoum

A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, the Enchanted City of the Amazon, by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writers

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.

Set in the great Brazilian port of Manaus during the golden decades of the Rubber Boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is the story of identical twin brothers who battle for the love of their mother. It is also a portrait of a city built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.