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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

By Jorge Amado

By Jorge Amado

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Sep 12, 2006 | ISBN 9780307276650

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
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Sep 12, 2006 | ISBN 9780307276650

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About Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

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 migrant worker who turns up in town–least of all Gabriela herself–will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?

Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life.

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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 19. It was an impassioned plea for… More about Jorge Amado

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Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $16.95
Published by Vintage
Sep 12, 2006 | 448 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307276650

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Praise

“An exciting and enjoyable romp of a book, rich in literary delights.” —The New York Times

“An enchanting and romantic novel . . . . A comedy vivid, believable, and entertaining.”—The Atlantic Monthly

“One hardly knows what to admire most: the dexterity with which [Amado] can keep half a dozen plots spinning, the gossamer texture of his writing, or his humor, tenderness and humanity.” —Saturday Review

“Gossipy, funny, very much alive.” —The New Yorker

“A twentieth-century Charles Dickens. . . . A master craftsman.”—The Nation

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