by Jorge Amado · Bibliotex · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301793
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«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Bibliotex in hardcover, with 381 pages, in Spanish.
The action takes place in Ilhéus, in southern Bahia, where Gabriela, a free woman who arrives from elsewhere, alters the relationships of a community marked by cocoa cultivation. The novel combines love with a tone of humor and irony and reflects the clash between tradition and a society beginning to change.
Originally published in 1958 as «Gabriela, cravo e canela», it won the Prêmio Jabuti in 1959. This edition belongs to the collection Las 100 joyas del milenio, with a foreword by Mempo Giardinelli.
For readers of classic and historical fiction, especially those interested in Brazilian literature, romance and the social portrait of the early 20th century.
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.
