Jorge Amado
Birth date: August 10, 1912
Died: August 06, 2001
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Any book that has me constantly thinking of food, sex and magic is amazing in my book.
Quincas Water-Bray, is dead for the entire book. Really?He seems to be more alive than all other characters in the story. Read the book if you like to enjoy his last party.
'O País do Carnaval' is the debut novel of one of Brazil's most celebrated writers of the 20th century, Jorge Amado. Largely autobiographical, it is based upon the life of an idealistic young man (Paulo Rigger) from an affluent background in Brazil's poverty-ridden Northeast with communistic sympath...
Amado claims in his intro/foreword that this is a light-hearted, fun book, and he just hopes someone has fun reading it. In that sense, it's successful. And it reads like a light-hearted book. Statue comes to life, some funny stuff happens, love stories and Carnival dancing, St. Barbara of the Th...
“Will my readers now, with their learning and their experience, tell me what is the truth, the whole truth? Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people’s lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us t...
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