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Amado, Jorge. The War of the Saints. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. First Edition. New York, Bantam Books, 1993. Octavo. 357 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 - 6 August 2001) 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, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1978. 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. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. Amado's popularity as a writer has never declined. His books have been translated into 49 languages in 55 countries, and adapted into films, theatrical works and TV programs. Amado died on 6 August 2001. His ashes were spread in the garden of his house four days later. (Wikipedia).
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"Dazzling...a tour de force and irrefutable proof of the writer's artistic maturity...a carnival of rhythm and color." --Boston Sunday Globe
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Jorge Amado--novelist, journalist, lawyer--was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was 19. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the '30s and '40s would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels--Gabriela, clavo y canela and Doña Flor y sus dos maridos--which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the '60s, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Doña Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.
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- Publication date1993
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