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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 that ended at the bottom of a river; of Hakim's wranglings with the Arabic language; of the two unnameable, fiery-tongued brothers; of the German photographer and constant friend Dorner, roaming Manaus with his Hasselblad; and at the center of it all lies Emilie: loving, interfering, luminous. Flowing like the Amazon through East and West, city and jungle, life and death, Tale of A Certain Orient has all the magnetism and lush beauty of its Brazilian setting.
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About the Author
Milton Hatoum was born in Manaus, Amazonas, and now lives in Sao Paulo. He is also the author of The Brothers, which is published in Portugal, the US, Holland, France, Germany, Spain and Lebanon, as well as in Brazil and by Bloomsbury in the UK. The Brothers was also awarded the Jabuti Prize in 2000.
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This is a newly revised translation of Hatoum's acclaimed novel The Tree of the Seventh Heaven (1994), which won Brazil's prestigious Jabuti Prize in 1990. Set in the Brazilian port of Manaus, the author's birthplace, the novel revolves around a family of Lebanese immigrants who gather for the funeral of Emilie, the matriarch. In flashbacks the family's story is slowly illuminated by a succession of narrators, including Emilie's and her rigid Muslim husband's unnamed adopted daughter, who for years has lived in Barcelona; Hakim, one of their sons; and Dorner, a German photographer and Emilie's kindred spirit. In their outpouring of recollections, the reader learns of the heartbreak that has consumed Emilie's long and lonely life. The suicide of her beloved brother, Emir; the cruel treatment of her daughter, Samara, because she bore an illegitimate child; the tragic accidental death of that child, a mute--each event is revealed from different viewpoints, a kaleidoscope of memories fueled by Hatoum's dreamy and poetic prose. Deborah Donovan
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747569061
- ISBN 13 9780747569060
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages212
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