by Jorge Amado · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429743272
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«Gabriela, clau i canyella: Crònica d'una ciutat d'interior» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (464 pages, in Catalan).
In 1925, Gabriela arrives in Ilhéus, a coastal city in Bahia, with a group of migrants fleeing poverty in the Brazilian interior. Nacib, a Syrian café owner, hires her as a cook and discovers her culinary talent and beauty. The love story between them is interwoven with the life, customs, and gastronomy of the city.
The novel was originally published in Portuguese in 1958 as «Gabriela, cravo e canela»; this 1997 Catalan edition is number 114 in the MOLU s.XX collection.
Recommended for readers of classic and romantic fiction, as well as those interested in Brazilian literature and Bahian society.
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.
