by Jorge Amado · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420657837
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Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands is a contemporary classic of Brazilian literature, adapted to film, theater, and television on multiple occasions. This costumbrista chronicle, with a background of social criticism, is both lyrical and ironic, presenting characters with strong individualities in the context of the colors, flavors, music, and magical rites of Bahian culture. The work is a display of sensuality and a celebration of the art of living, free impulses, and elementary pleasures. A carefree battle between the material and the spiritual, the wonderful and the everyday that, according to Jorge Amado, 'really happened, believe it who wants. It happened in Bahia, where these and other magical things happen without anyone being surprised'.
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
