by Jorge Amado · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422687214
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«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (478 pages, in Spanish).
In the city of Ilhéus (Bahia), the arrival of Gabriela, a woman fleeing the countryside and poverty, stirs up daily life and awakens passions among her neighbors. Her relationship with Nacib, a local merchant, intertwines with the chronicle of the Brazilian cocoa region, where plantation-owning colonels resist the advance of progress and a struggle for land and dignity unfolds.
The novel was originally published in 1958 as «Gabriela, cravo e canela» and won the Prêmio Jabuti in 1959.
For readers of classic novels and Latin American fiction, with an interest in stories set in 20th-century Brazil.
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.
