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This is a great book that has you wondering what has happened all the way through. Thomas, an innocent and hopeful young butterfly collector is sponsored on a trip to Brazil by a wealthy man who owns vast rubber plantations in Brazil. He wants to find new species of butterfly, especially one with one yellow and one black wing, which he plans to name after his wife Sophie. But he never finds it, and returns mute, unable to work or even get out of bed. The novel is interesting to read because it makes you wonder what happened to him to make him so unwell.

I especially enjoyed the setting with descriptions of amazing wealth, such as an opera house being built in the middle of a jungle, even though they had no singers it was an ornate and huge building in the European style. There were thousands of species of beautiful butterflys in the untouched rain forest which was easy to visalise.

The book made me think about how you have to remember how to behave when in a foreign new environement that doesn't have the rules and expectations you are used to.
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