Milton Hatoum - Relato de um Certo Oriente

After a long absence, a woman returns to Manaus, the city of her childhood. She is driven by the urgent need to see Emilie again, the extraordinary matriarch of a Lebanese family long established in the Amazonian capital, who adopted her as a child. Emilie – an affectionate, assertive, luminous presence – is on her deathbed, and the narrator wants to see her one last time. The house she returns to is a dilapidated house, so different from the one she remembered. But within its walls still echo the voices and stories of the many destinies that passed through it.

Between the Orient and the Amazon, this is the story of a search for a lost world, as the places of our memories are always lost. In it, memories flow like the river, between east and west, between city and jungle, between life and death. Charged with the magnetism and beauty of the Amazon, submerged in the sweet and captivating lyricism of Milton Hatoum's writing, *Relato de um certo oriente* (A Tale of a Certain Orient) carries the breath of works that are here to stay.