by Jorge Amado · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422980
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«La desaparición de la santa: una historia de hechicería» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (488 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Brazil, the story begins with the transfer of a statue of Saint Barbara from the Reconcavo to Bahia for an exhibition of sacred art. During the journey the statue comes to life with the appearance of Yansà, lady of the hurricane and of war, and her passage through the streets sows panic and bewilders the police and the press during the years of the military dictatorship.
Translation by Monserrat Mira. The edition was published in Barcelona in 1994.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Brazil and in plots that mix the everyday with the supernatural.
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.
