by Jorge Amado · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475884981
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«Els vells mariners» is the novel by Jorge Amado published by Proa in paperback (296 pages, in Catalan).
A retired commander, Vasco Moscoso, settles in Periperi (Bahia) and charms the neighbourhood with his supposed adventures on distant seas; only Chico Pacheco doubts him and investigates. An adventure novel, an ironic portrait of the Brazilian bourgeoisie and a play between truth and lies.
Catalan translation by Xavier Moral Ajado. Original title: «Os Velhos Marinheiros ou o Capitão de Longo Curso», originally published in 1961.
For readers of classic fiction and Brazilian literature; combines maritime adventures with irony and social portraiture.
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.
