by Jorge Amado · Piper · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492120982
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«Viva Teresa» is the novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado published by Piper in paperback, with 452 pages, in German.
The novel follows Teresa Batista, a Brazilian woman who as a child is sold to a brutal captain and only with a wealthy magnate knows a brief period of happiness. With the knife, her fists and intelligence, she resists oppression and injustice surrounded by colorful characters who accompany her in her struggle.
Work originally published in Portuguese in 1972 as «Tereza Batista cansada de guerra»; this German edition of 1994 features a translation by Ludwig Graf von Schönfeldt.
For readers of Brazilian literature and magical realism, interested in stories of resistance, love and colorful characters.
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.
