by Jorge Amado · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422619390
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«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (372 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Ilhéus, in the cocoa region of Bahia, during the 1920s. The arrival of Gabriela, a young woman fleeing the countryside, crosses paths with the life of Nacib, owner of a bar of Syrian origin, and alongside the struggle between the old landowners and progress, the novel portrays love, desire and the transformation of a traditional society.
Work originally published in 1958 as «Gabriela, cravo e canela». This 1985 edition includes translation by Haydee Jofre Barroso and introduction by Robert Saladrigas.
Aimed at readers of classic novels and historical fiction, and at those who appreciate love stories with a social backdrop.
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.
