by Jorge Amado · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401381546
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«La desaparición de la santa: una historia de hechicería» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (363 pages, in Spanish).
In Salvador de Bahia, a museum director brings by sea the image of Saint Barbara of Thunder for an exhibition of sacred art. Upon docking, the statue comes to life and gets lost in the crowd. The saint, identified with Yansan, unleashes a wild search in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship, with humor, social criticism and magical realism.
O sumiço da santa is the original Portuguese title; the Spanish translation is by Montserrat Mira. First edition 1989, in the Plaza & Janés/Literaria collection.
For readers of magical realism and Brazilian literature, interested in a satire with social background set in Salvador de Bahia.
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.
