by Jorge Amado · OCEANO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476693438
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«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Océano in hardback (576 pages, in Spanish).
In 1925, in Ilhéus, a city in northeastern Brazil booming thanks to cocoa, the young mulatta Gabriela arrives from the interior and is hired as a cook by the Syrian merchant Nacib. Of great beauty and culinary skills, she soon becomes his lover, but the relationship becomes complicated when Nacib decides to marry her.
Originally published in 1958 as «Gabriela, cravo e canela», this Spanish edition appeared in 1999 in the Trece Lunas collection.
For readers of romantic and historical novels and for those who want to delve into classic Brazilian narrative.
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.
