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Gabriela, Clavo y Canela / Gabriela Clove Cinnamon

Gabriela, Clavo y Canela / Gabriela Clove Cinnamon( )
Author: Amado, Jorge
ISBN:978-0-307-27956-9
Publication Date:Jun 2008
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage Espanol
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

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, contrata a la bella mulata Gabriela que, para su sorpresa, resultará ser no sólo una gran cocinera sino un encantador beneficio para su...
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Book Details
Pages:464
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.24 x 7.96 x 1.08 Inches
Book Weight:0.85 Pounds
Author Biography
Amado, Jorge (Author)
Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001 Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Jorge Amado possesses a talent for storytelling as well as a deep concern for social and economic justice. He was born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1912.

Some critics claim that his early works suffer from his politics. Others commonly express reservations concerning Amado's sentimentality and erotico-mythic stereotyping. In the works represented in English translation, his literary merits prevail. The Violent Land (1942) chronicles the development of Brazilian territory and struggles for its resources, memorializing the deeds of those who built the country. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958), which achieved critical and popular success in both Brazil and the United States, tells a sensual love story of a Syrian bar owner and his beautiful cook. Home Is the Sailor (1962) introduces Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, a comic figure in the tradition of Don Quixote. In Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Amado introduced the folk culture of shamans and Yorube gods. The protagonists of Shepherds of the Night (1964) are Bahia's poor.

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