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Ashes of the Amazon

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.