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Tale of a Certain Orient, was published in Brazil in 1989 – it was followed by The Brothers in 2000 and by Ashes of the Amazon in 2005. All three won the prestigious Jabuti Prize for fiction and have been translated into English. The last was awarded the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature as well. Milton Hatoum also published a collection of short stories in 2009, A cidade ilhada (The Island City).

First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

Canongate Books Ltd,

14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

This digital edition first published in 2009

by Canongate Books

Copyright © Milton Hatoum, 2008

The moral right of the author has been asserted

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

on request from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84767 832 4

Typeset by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd,

Grangemouth, Stirlingshire

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Table of Contents

Orphans of Eldorado

Title Page

Dedication

Myths

The City

Orphans of Eldorado

Afterword

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright

Table of Contents

Orphans of Eldorado

Title Page

Dedication

Myths

The City

Orphans of Eldorado

Afterword

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Copyright