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The
Brothers by
Milton Hatoum
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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in the great Amazonian port of Manaus during the first half of the twentieth
century, this is the story of identical twin brothers who battle for the
love of their mother. It is also a vivid and surprising portrait of a city
built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon
rainforest. The novel itself is full of eddies, dangerous undertows and
shifting surface reflections. While recounting the fortunes and trials of a Lebanese immigrant family over many decades, The Brothers presents a Levantine Amazonia, a near-magical place at the far reaches of the Brazilian imagination. Foreigners, immigrants and the local population of Manaus share a landscape which delivers a wealth of sensations to the reader: a city full of smells, of sounds and tastes as well as a dazzling array of sights. Tense and richly atmospheric, this is an enthralling novel by one of Brazil's finest contemporary novelists. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Milton Hatoum was born in 1952 in Manaus, Amazonas. He is Professor of Literature at the Federal University of Amazonas and a visiting Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California. He is the author of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven, winner of the Jabuti, Brazil's most prestigious prize for fiction. His second novel, The Brothers, is published in Portugal, the US, Holland, France, Germany, Spain and Lebanon. It was also awarded the Jabuti Prize in 2000. |
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