by Jorge Amado · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804495925
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«Gabriella garofano e cannella» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Mondadori in paperback (504 pages, in Italian).
In the Brazilian city of Ilhéus, at the beginning of the 20th century, Nacib, an Arab merchant, hires Gabriella, a mulatto woman from the sertão, as a cook. Free and naive, she integrates into the community while the area experiences conflicts among the cacao landowners. Jorge Amado portrays with sensuality the characters, aromas, and social tensions of Bahia.
The work belongs to Mondadori's Oscar Classici Moderni collection, series number 171.
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.
