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, 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…

Captains of the Sands

Captains of the Sands

Jorge Amado
The Violent Land

The Violent Land

Jorge Amado
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

Jorge Amado; Translated by Gregory Rabassa; Introduction by Rivka Galchen
The Discovery of America by the Turks

The Discovery of America by the Turks

Jorge Amado; Translated by Gregory Rabassa; Foreword by José Saramago
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Jorge Amado Translated by Harriet de Onis
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Jorge Amado Translated by James L. Taylor and William Grossman
The War of the Saints

The War of the Saints

Jorge Amado
Showdown

Showdown

Jorge Amado

Series with Jorge Amado