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Amado, Jorge

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ISBN 10 : 0553051741 ISBN 13 : 9780553051742

Editeur : Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1988

Synopsis

Amado, Jorge. Showdown. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Toronto, London, Bantam, 1988. 24 cm. 422 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Signed by Jorge Amado ! / Excellent condition first edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) 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, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1978. 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. (Wikipedia) In his unanimously praised novel [Showdown] full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Jorge Amado has created a South American Western and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood. (Amazon)

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jorge Amado—novelist, journalist, lawyer—was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was 19. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the ’30s and ’40s would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels—Gabriela, clavo y canela and Doña Flor y sus dos maridos—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the ’60s, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Doña Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Jorge Amado has created a South American "Western" and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0553051741
• ISBN 13: 9780553051742
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible