GABRIELA, Clove and Cinnamon
by Jorge Amado
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Montclair, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
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, Clove and Cinnamon. 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, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most reknowned writers of the Latin American boom of the sixties, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Dona Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 553357
- Title
- GABRIELA, Clove and Cinnamon
- Author
- Jorge Amado
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Date Published
- 1962
- Pages
- 425
Terms of Sale
Montclair Book Center
Shipping charges listed are estimates based on the average book. If a book is especially large, or is a set of multiple books, we may request that you pay an additional shipping charge. All books may be returned within one week of receipt, with prior notification. If book is not as described then a full refund will be issued. If the book is returned for some other reason then it will be refunded less shipping cost and possibly a 20% restocking fee. All international addresses must contain a street number or the order will be returned to us by the post office.
About the Seller
Montclair Book Center
About Montclair Book Center
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...