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Jorge Amado

Works by Jorge Amado

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by W.L. Grossman
Original title: Gabriela, Cravo e Canela

‘The Colonels will go crazy over her. But don’t tell anybody that they’re not married. Every colonel’s fondest dream is to sleep with a married woman. Only, if anybody tries to sleep with his wife oh boy!’. (more...)

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Harriet de Onís
Original title: Dona Flor e seus dois maridos

Here is Amado’s book of Bahian cuisine, with its African, tropical and coastal elements celebrated throughout Brazil. See for instance ; what to serve at a wake (p1), Dona Flor’s recipe for marinated crabs (p14), (more...)

Showdown [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Tocaia Grande

Showdown was described as giving ‘the underside of (Brazilian) history’ by B.J.Chamberlain in his 1990 book on Jorge Amado. It’s certainly the underside in the sense of being the totally non-respectable version of the founding of a cocoa town in Southern Bahia. (more...)

War of the Saints [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: O Sumiço da Santa

The writer amused himself with The War of the Saints, as he says in the preface: ‘It’s been fun to write; if someone else has fun reading it, I’ll consider myself satisfied’. (more...)

Tieta (The Americas) [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado and Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello

Tent of Miracles (The Americas) [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado and Paul Bowles

The Swallow and the Tom Cat A Love Story.

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merollo
Original title: Gato Malhado e a Andoninho Sinhá

Tieta the Goat Girl [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merollo
Original title: Tieta do Agreste

Teresa Batista: Home from the Wars

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
Original title: Teresa Batista, cansada de guerra

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