The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9780143106364 - UTGIVEN: 2012-09The great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece--published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birthHere is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, king of the [...]
The Violent Land (Häftad)
avJorge Amado, Alfred Mac Adam
ISBN: 9780143106371 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all--the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful w[...]
The Discovery of America by the Turks (Pocket)
avJorge Amado, Gregory (TRN) Rabassa, Jose (FRW) Saramago
ISBN: 9780143106982 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08For the first time in English: legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado's spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America--published for the centennial of Amado's birthTwo Arab immigrants--"Turks" as Brazilians call them--arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier on the same ship in 1903, hoping [...]
Tieta (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9780299186548 - UTGIVEN: 2003-03"Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist.""
--New York Times"[...]
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9780307276643 - UTGIVEN: 2006-09
Dona Flor y Sus Dos Maridos: Historia Moral y de Amor (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9780307279552 - UTGIVEN: 2008-06
Gabriela (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9780747573715 - UTGIVEN: 2005-10When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilheus, things would never be the same again In 1925, the town's cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns, but Nacib the Arab's most desperate worry is that his cook has walked out of his bar. He ventures over to the market to hire a migrant w[...]
Jorge Amado (Häftad)
ISBN: 9780815339328 - UTGIVEN: 2001-05Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. This volume seeks to offer his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil. The book contains an introduction and chronology to[...]
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Häftad)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9781852427108 - UTGIVEN: 1999-06When Dona Flor's husband dies suddenly, she forgets all his defects and remembers only his passion. Erotic nightmares haunt her. Dr Teodoro, a local pharmacist, proposes marriage and Dona Flor accepts, hoping to recapture the ecstasy she now craves. One night, her first husband materializes naked at[...]
Den tigerrandiga katten och fröken Svala : en kärlekshistoria (Pocket)
avJorge Amado
ISBN: 9789197884440 - UTGIVEN: 201209Den tigerrandiga katten och fröken Svala skrevs 1948 till sonen João Jorges ettårsdag. Texten försvann och återfanns långt senare. Först 1976 kom den ut i sin första upplaga med illustrationer av den framstående konstnären från Bahia - Carybé.
Tillsammans med sina kongeniala b[...]
