by Jorge Amado, Theunis Uilke Vries · ISBN 9789010057457
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«Gabriela» is the novel by Jorge Amado translated into Dutch by Theunis Uilke Vries, published in 1985 (363 pages).
The action takes place in a booming Brazilian port city around 1920. The bond between an Arab immigrant and a mulatto woman alters local life and reflects the social and economic tensions of a Brazil in transformation.
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.
