by Jorge Amado · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440669872
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«Tieta de Agreste» is the novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published by Ediciones B in paperback (590 pages, in Spanish).
Tieta, who has made her fortune in Sao Paulo, returns to her native village in the Brazilian Agreste; her presence and her nephew's abandonment of the seminary disturb the appearances of a conservative community. While the neighbours unite against a polluting industry, the novel combines irony, social denunciation and sensuality in a vitalist narrative.
Translation by Montserrat Mira; the original is titled «Tieta do Agreste» and the volume appears in the Tiempos modernos collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Brazilian literature and social satires with humour and sensuality.
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.
