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Book SynopsisTranslated 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.
Trade ReviewOne of South America's leading contemporary novelists' Maya Jaggi, Guardian 'Mysterious Powerful By the end of Ashes of the Amazon I was fully aware of its grandeur' Laura Thompson, Daily Telegraph 'It is at its richest towards the end where characters only lightly sketched are seen at last in colour [There is] an admirable clarity in the portrayal of the setting and a sophisticated and fascinating shifting of our sympathies' Daniel Hahn, Independent 'Hatoum's understated style loses none of its quiet shine in John Gledson's sensitive translation readers coming to the book's revelatory final pages will emerge steeped in melancholy from this sweltering fictional universe. Ashes of the Amazon marks the next assured step in the career of a consistently persuasive author' Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times
