The Mango Tree

By: Robert Cabot

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Hardcover | 26 April 2024

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236 Pages

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20.32 x 12.7 x 1.42

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The Mango Tree follows the life of Ramiro Valenzuela, an indigenous Yaqui native, as he embarks on a wild journey that takes him from his homeland in Mexico to the United States, Italy, Greece, the UK, and Canada. Rising out of poverty and through the ranks of post-WWII academia, Ramiro grapples with existential questions of power, identity, climate change, and how to live a meaningful life amid the beauty and terror of an ever-changing world. What follows is a dreamlike tale of nature and man, rendered with lyrical grace and deep, elegiac resonance.

Through the voices of Ramiro and the characters he encounters-including his grandfather, Felipe, enslaved by the Daz regime; Kurt, a Nazi U-boat captain marooned in Mexico; Mike, a soldier-turned-artist in Italy; and the titular Mango Tree-Cabot tells the story of the twentieth century itself in striking, intimate detail. The Mango Tree is at its heart a novel about love, the land around us, and the bloody consequences of empire across the globe.

Industry Reviews

"I loved the intimate voices, the speaking landscapes, the gorgeous, heartbreaking world contained in The Mango Tree. This is a marvelous read to be returned to again and again."

-Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank

"The Mango Tree is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. Fifty years ago, in his debut novel-The Joshua Tree-Robert Cabot gave elegiacal expression to the nascent consciousness of the environmental movement. Now, in his centenary year, the world is waking up to what he was among the first to see - Cabot brings to mind Shelley's dictum-Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

-Robert Fuller, physicist, author, social reformer,

citizen diplomat, former president of Oberlin College

"A wonderful novel . . . beautiful, mysterious, touching."

-Jesºs Acosta, Emeritus teacher, Alamos, Mexico

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