Like most of the books in The Myths series, this is a slim volume, more of a novella. For me Eldorado is the City of Gold but Milton Hatoum has written about the Amazonian legends of the enchanted city at the bottom of the great river which he suspects is the origin of the European myth.

This is essentially a riches to rags story, Brazilian style. Translated from Portuguese into English, it is lacking in quotation marks for direct speech. This makes it difficult to follow who is speaking or even if someone is speaking. This seems the norm for such transaltions but I wish the translators would use relevant punctuation for the target audience.

I would probably give this 4 stars with quotation marks, but struggling with the text does take away some of the pleasure.