Orphans of Eldorado

Arminto Cordovil, once the only heir of a shipping magnate who grew rich on latex, tells a stranger how he fell for Dinaura, a convent orphan who read novels, seemed to belong to the forest and talked of an enchanted city beneath the river. His father Amando wanted a dynasty; the son kept thwarting him. Around them move a dead mother, a loyal nursemaid, a Sephardi beauty, a Greek lawyer and a menacing boatman, in the last years of the rubber boom before 1914, when the region believed it had found El Dorado.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

112 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, early 20th century

First published

2008 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788535911671 (original)

9781847673008 (Canongate, United Kingdom)