by Jorge Amado · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300849
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«Jubiabá» is the novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published by Orbis in hardcover (319 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Antônio Balduíno, an orphan from the streets of Salvador de Bahia, who goes from beggar to musician, capoeirista, boxer, and tobacco worker until becoming a union speaker. It is a portrait of Black and mixed-race life in Bahia and its Recôncavo, with Afro-Brazilian culture and class struggle as the backdrop.
Written in 1935, this Orbis edition is volume 37 of the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection.
Recommended for readers interested in classic Brazilian literature, Afro-Brazilian culture, and the social novel.
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.
