by Jorge Amado · SEIX BARRAL: LITERATURA CONTEMPORANEA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220173
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«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Seix Barral in paperback (357 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Ilhéus (Brazil) in the 1920s, it tells of the arrival of Gabriela, a migrant from the interior who starts working as a cook in Nacib's bar. Her culinary skill and beauty transform the business and give rise to a story of passion and social conventions, in a coastal city undergoing profound change.
Original from 1958 («Gabriela, cravo e canela»), translated by Haydée M. Jofre Barroso; 1985 edition in the Literatura Contemporánea Seix Barral collection (no. 24).
For readers of Brazilian classics and historical fiction with social and romantic undertones.
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.
