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Books by Milton Hatoum
  | | Orphans of Eldorado (Myths) by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-300-8, ISBN: 1-84767-300-7 "A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, the Enchanted City of the Amazon, by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writersThe setting for this magical fable is Eldorado, the enchanted city that inhabited the fevered dreams of European navigators and conquistadors, but eluded all attempts to find it on the map. Some have linked it to Manaus in the Amazon Basin, and it is here that Arminto Cordovil lives with his father Amando in a white ma ..." |
 | | The Brothers(1st Edition) by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14118-9, ISBN: 0-374-14118-5 "Introducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters. Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, "The Brothers" is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother. But it is Omar who is the object of Zana's Jocasta-like passion, while her husband, Halim, feels her slipping away from him, as their beautiful daughter, RGnia, makes a tragic claim ..." |
 | | Other Carnivals New Stories from Brazil by Milton Hatoum, Tatiana Salem Levy, Bernardo Carvalho, Angel Gurria Quintana, Jeff Fisher, Ángel Gurría Quintana Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Full Circle Editions Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-9571528-4-7, ISBN: 0-9571528-4-1 "These 12 short stories by some of Brazil's finest authors offer snapshots of Brazilian life, past and present, in all its teeming and vibrant complexity." |
 | | Tale of a Certain Orient(Updated) by Milton Hatoum, Ellen Watson, John Gledson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6907-7, ISBN: 0-7475-6907-X "Emilie, the matriarch, is on her deathbed. Returning to her childhood home to say goodbye, her granddaughter becomes enveloped in memories, as family and friends gather round to tell their own tales, one by one. We hear of how Uncle Hanna first left Lebanon for Brazil early in the twentieth century; of Soraya Angela, the illegitimate deaf-mute child whose short life was blighted by fear and prejudice; of Uncle Emir and his solitary walk ..." |
 | | The Brothers(Updated) by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6271-9, ISBN: 0-7475-6271-7 "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 vivid and surprising portrait of a city built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and the novel itself is full of eddies, dangerous undertows and shifting s ..." |
 | | Tale of a Certain Orient(Updated) by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson, Ellen Watson Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Bloomsbury Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6906-0, ISBN: 0-7475-6906-1 "Emilie, the matriarch, is on her deathbed. Returning to her childhood home to say goodbye, her granddaughter becomes enveloped in memories, as family and friends gather round to tell their own tales, one by one. We hear of how Uncle Hanna first left Lebanon for Brazil early in the twentieth century; of Soraya Angela, the illegitimate deaf-mute child whose short life was blighted by fear and prejudice; of Uncle Emir and his solitary walk ..." |
 | | THE BROTHERS ... MINT UK First Edition, by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-5784-5, ISBN: 0-7475-5784-5 |
 | | The Tree of the Seventh Heaven by Milton Hatoum, Ellen Watson Hardcover, 210 Pages, Published 1994 by Atheneum ISBN-13: 978-0-689-12165-4, ISBN: 0-689-12165-2 "On the occasion of the death of the clan's matriarch, a diverse group of voices tell the story of a large family of Lebanese immigrants who settle in Manaus, a lush Amazonian city." |
 | | The Tree of the Seventh Heaven by Milton Hatoum Hardcover, Published by Smithmark Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8317-5853-0, ISBN: 0-8317-5853-8 |
 | | World Windows 1 (Social Studies): Things Made of Wood: Content Literacy, Nonfiction Reading, Language & Literacy (International edition) by National Geographic Learning, Ybm National Geographic, Milton Hatoum Published 2011 by Heinle-Cengage Elt ISBN-13: 978-1-133-49278-8, ISBN: 1-133-49278-9 |
 | | Canongate Myths Ser. Orphans of Eldorado by Milton Hatoum 176 Pages, Published 2010 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-832-4, ISBN: 1-84767-832-7 "Milton Hatoum. Amazon, I thought about the woman: the tapuia who was going to live with her lover at the bottom of the river. I remembered the strange sky, with the rainbow that looked like a snake. ... Only now you tell me. Why? Now I feel ..." |
 | | Orphans of Eldorado by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-921656-12-5, ISBN: 1-921656-12-3 "A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado by Brazil's greatest writer." |
 | | Brothers Poster by Milton Hatoum Hardcover, Published 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-6510-9, ISBN: 0-7475-6510-4 |
 | | The Brothers A Novel by Milton Hatoum 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3220-2, ISBN: 1-4299-3220-1 "Vivid, exotic, and lushly atmospheric, The Brothers is the story of a family's disintegration, of a changing city and the culture clash between the native-born inhabitants and a new immigrant group, and of the future the next generation ..." |
 | | Grand Street 64 Memory (Spring 1998) by Editor-Jean Stein, Contributor-David Mamet, Editor-Walter Hopps, Contributor-Pablo Neruda, Tony Smith, Tennessee Williams, Luc Tuymans, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Vratislav Effenberger, Milton Hatoum, Grand Street Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1998 by Grand Street Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-885490-15-5, ISBN: 1-885490-15-1 "Grand Street's spring issue will turn its eclectic eye on questions of memory andforgetting in social, emotional and national frameworks." |
 | | Zenobia(1st Edition) (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Gellu Naum, Sasha Vlad, James Brook, Milton Hatoum Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-1254-4, ISBN: 0-8101-1254-X "One of the best-known novels by prolific Romanian avant-garde writer Gelu Naum, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle demands of his lady in a landscape of snares, desolation, incipient madness, and material poverty magically interrupted by moments of extreme beauty. His wife, artist Lyggia Naum, was the inspiration for the title character. In this 1985 masterpi ..." |
 | | Ashes of the Amazon(9th Edition) by Milton Hatoum Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9672-1, ISBN: 0-7475-9672-7 "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. In Ashes of the Amazon, Hatoum takes to heart Flaubert's injunction to write 'the moral history ..." |
 | | Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-8802-3, ISBN: 0-7475-8802-3 "Even so, he brought his friends for lunch; his sister indignantly dragged him into the kitchen: 'There's not even food for the cats, and you dare bring ... A bit of cachcqa and fried jaraqui and we're in seventh heaven. ... As time went on, she got more tight- fisted, and her brother more spendthrift, attitudes that reflected what each of them expected out of life. ... In the second week of the month Ranulfo was already plagued wit ..." |
 | | Orfaos Do Eldorado (Portuguese Edition) by Milton Hatoum Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2008 by Companhia Das Letras ISBN-13: 978-85-359-1167-1, ISBN: 85-359-1167-7 "Numa cidade à beira do rio Amazonas, um passante vem procurar abrigo à sombra de um jatobá e, incauto ou curioso, dispõe-se a ouvir um velho com fama de louco. É o que basta para Arminto Cordovil começar a contar a história de Órfãos do Eldorado: a história de seu próprio amor desesperado por Dinaura, mas também a crônica de uma família, de uma região e de toda uma época que, à base da seiva da seringueira, quis encarnar os sonhos secul ..." |
 | | Cendres D'Amazonie (French Edition) by Milton Hatoum, Geneviève Leibrich Paperback, 317 Pages, Published 2008 by Actes Sud ISBN-13: 978-2-7427-7231-5, ISBN: 2-7427-7231-6 |
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