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Jorge Amado—novelist, journalist, lawyer—was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was nineteen. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the thirties and forties would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic
novels—Gabriela, clavo y canela and Doña Flor y sus dos maridos—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to... Read More
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1995
Price: $15.95
Jorge Amado has been called one of the great writers of our time. The joyfulness of his storytelling and his celebration of life's sensual pleasures have found him a loyal following. With The War Of The Saints, he has created an exuberant tale set among the flashing rhythms, intoxicating smells, and bewitching colors of... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
¿Es posible que una mujer ame a dos hombres al mismo tiempo?
A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador pícaro Vadinho dos Guimares—empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible—muere durante el carnaval. Su desconsolada esposa se dedica a la cocina y a sus amigas, hasta que conoce al joven doctor Teodoro y decide asentarse.
Pero... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $16.00
La clásica historia de amor prohibido de la literatura latinoamericana.
En 1925, la riqueza producida por el cacao ha permitido el desarrollo económico de Ilheús, pero la costumbres de sus habitantes todavía son primitivas y violentas. En este pueblo, el árabe Nacib Saad, desesperado al perder al cocinero de su popular café... Read more >
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