The Emperor of the Amazon by Marcio Souza. New York. 1980. Avon/Bard. 0380762404. Translated from the Portuguese by Thomas Colchie. 190 pages. paperback.

DESCRIPTION - THE LAST EXOTIC ADVENTURER - Dom Luiz Galvez, turn of the century Brazilian journalist, escapes from a married woman's bedroom window one evening and inadvertently saves the life of the Bolivian ambassador. With one fortuitous leap info the political arena, his life is changed forever. In an exotic jungle landscape, under the shadow of a diamond-studded opera house and the watchful imperialist eye of the U.S. government, Galvez becomes a revolutionary. With his three mistresses - a beautiful Latin blue blood, an amorous Catholic nun, and a temperamental French opera singer - Galvez voyages into the heart of an uncharted rubber kingdom to become mighty Emperor of the Amazon. Marcio Souza's bawdy epic tale about the briefest and most orgiastic reign in the history of revolution, marks the American debut of one of the most brilliant, controversial young writers in Latin America today.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - MARCIO SOUZA was born in 1946 in Manaus, the Amazon region of Brazil. He began writing film criticism for newspapers when he was fourteen years old. He studied social sciences at the University of Sao Paulo. THE EMPEROR OF THE AMAZON, his first novel, was an extraordinary bestseller in Brazil and was serialized in a major Paris newspaper. Its pointed critique of Amazonian society cost him job with the Ministry of Culture. In 1967 he published a collection of film writings under the title Mostrador de Sombras (Show of Shadows). Souza is also a filmmaker and a dramatist. As a playwright, he works with Teatro Experimental do Sesc Amazonas, an important group fighting for the preservation and defense of the Amazon. His second novel, MAD MARIA, is also available from Avon/Bard Books in a translation by Thomas Colchie.

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