by Jorge Amado · Alianza Editorial Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420601021
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«Sudor» is the short novel by Jorge Amado, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (167 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the poor neighborhoods of Bahia (Brazil), the novel portrays the lives of stevedores and prostitutes, with their daily struggles, dreams and passions in an atmosphere of poverty and despair. The story shows its characters' search for dignity and offers a close, raw look at the human condition under adversity.
Work originally published as «Suor» in 1934, translated by Estela dos Santos. It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection of Alianza Editorial, no. 1102.
For readers of Brazilian social fiction and admirers of Jorge Amado.
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.
