The Violent Land
$42.07
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2013
Summary
From the foremost Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century comes an exotic tale of greed, madness, and seduction set in Brazil’s lush, cocoa-growing forests.
Two powerful families scheme to control Brazil’s cocoa bounty in this epic novel that does for Brazil’s cocoa rush what Upton Sinclair’s Oil! does for the early days of California oil prospecting. With its cast of assassins, gamblers, opportunists, and beautiful women, The Violent Land is an unbridled adventu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106371 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143106376 |
| Author: | Jorge Amado |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 127mm x 196mm |
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About The Author
Jorge Amado
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, Clove and Cinnamon. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was nineteen. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the thirties and forties would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels–Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands–which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as
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