by Jorge Amado · LGF -Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253053156
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«Tocaia Grande: la face cachée» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by LGF-Livre de Poche in paperback (638 pages, in French).
The novel narrates the slow founding and growth of Tocaia Grande, a Brazilian settlement that arose at a crossroads between misery and vice. Bandits, pioneers and the dispossessed mix in a tragic and hilarious Brazilian western, with violence, passions and humour.
The novel was originally published in 1984 as «Tocaia Grande: A Face Obscura»; this French edition is from 1990.
For readers of Brazilian fiction and historical fiction who enjoy adventure stories, marginal characters and a tropical setting.
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.
