Ashes of the Amazon

Milton Hatoum · 2005 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

Mundo, the son of a rich Manaus jute trader, rebels against his father and becomes a painter while Brazil's military dictatorship tightens. His friend Lavo, the narrator, reconstructs their youth and the family's decline from fragments. It won the Jabuti Prize in 2006 and was published in English in 2008.

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