Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Colecção Mil Folhas, #5)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788493264505 (8493264504)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Público (Colecção mil folhas)
Pages no: 580
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Romance,
Magical Realism,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Portuguese Literature,
Brazil
Any book that has me constantly thinking of food, sex and magic is amazing in my book.
Basically... So much so, it didn't even stay dead.
A fantastic read by one of Brazil's top writers. Lucious prose, strongly drawn characters, well plotted, with great use of culture, food, and settings. A must read.
Rating: five enchanted stars of fiveSo, as I've explained on my profile over at LibraryThing, I've been in a book circle in RL for 17 years, and I posted our group reading list with my one-line assessments of the books. Most of those books I read long long long before I knew about LT or GoodReads, a...
A book with everything; sly wit, erotic passion, voodoo, a ghost, rapturous meanderings over food, even a recipe or two. What do you serve at a funeral wake? Dona Flor can tell you. Dona Flor is in love with her husband but he is a womanizer, a gambler and a drunk and manages to die of a heart attac...
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