by Jorge Amado · Seix Barral Barcelona, Spain · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432222689
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«Jubiabá» is the novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published by Seix Barral in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Antônio Balduíno, an orphan who grows up in the hills of Salvador de Bahia. Accused of spying on his employers' daughter, he flees and becomes a stevedore, boxer, guitarist, samba composer and union leader. His bond with Jubiabá, a candomblé shaman, serves to portray poverty, racism and Afro-Brazilian culture.
Work originally published in 1935, translated by Basilio Losada. Part of the «Obras maestras de la literatura contemporánea» collection (no. 105).
For readers interested in classics of Brazilian fiction and social realism with an Afro-Brazilian background.
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.
