by Jorge Amado · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495971487
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Gabriela, clavo y canela» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Quinteto in paperback (529 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Ilhéus (Bahia) in the 1920s, it tells the life of Nacib, a merchant of Syrian origin, when his cook abandons him. The arrival of Gabriela, free and sensual, transforms his restaurant and his life; between them arises a love that defies the conventions of a society of landowners and merchants.
Subtitled «crónica de una ciudad de interior», it belongs to the Quinteto collection (no. 108) from El Aleph Editores.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and Brazilian literature.
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.
