Jorge Amado Livres

Jolie et rayonnante, cuisinière émérite, dona Flor est très aimée. On la plaint aussi parce qu'elle a épousé Vadinho, vaurien, joueur et coureur. Le roman s'ouvre au moment du carnaval et sur la mort inattendue de Vadinho, après sept ans de mariage. Dona Flor se console assez vite en épousant le très respectable docteur Teodoro. Mais cette existence calme et ordonnée prend fin le jour où dona Flor trouve Vadinho étendu nu sur le lit. Invisible à tous, l'homme s'est réincarné pour la seule dona Flor et entend bien jouir de ses droits de mari... A Bahia, terre des dieux, des danses et des résurrections, des transes et du candomblé, une telle aventure devient l'histoire d'une ville bien-aimée et de tout un peuple, une sorte de voluptueuse chronique. Ce roman truculent et irrévérencieux est un chef-d'œuvre d'humour qui prend la forme d'un pied de nez à la morale. Un plat aux aromates puissants, à la saveur et à l'exubérance toute tropicale cuisiné de main de maître.

Dans le Brésil du Nord-est, le picaresque Antonio Balduino incarne la peine et les rêves du peuple noir. Enfant perdu, mauvais garçon, boxeur professionnel, initié des " macumbas ", travailleur sur les plantations de tabac, docker, employé de cirque, Antonio cherche toujours " le chemin de la maison ". Il a des amours - irréelles - avec la blanche Lindinalva et une liaison avec la trépidante Rosenda Roseda. Une grève lui permettra de découvrir ce qu'est la solidarité et donnera un sens à sa vie : la lutte pour la libération.

Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town–least of all Gabriela herself–will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her? Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life.

The arrival of an intoxicating mulatto girl from the backlands changes the lives of the inhabitants of a provincial Brazilian town.

After twenty-six years away, Tieta returns to her seaside hometown, Agreste, where her family embraces her as a wealthy widow. However, she must confront her past and reveal her true identity to protect the town's beaches from industrial development. To achieve this, she leverages her influential connections in São Paulo, drawing on her experience as the Madam of a prestigious bordello. The narrative explores themes of identity, family dynamics, and the struggle against commercial exploitation.

Previously published: New York, N.Y.: Avon, c1988.

Jorge Amado has been called one of the great writers of our time.  The joyfulness of his storytelling and his celebration of life's sensual pleasures have found him a loyal following.  With The War Of The Saints ,  he has created an exuberant tale set among the flashing rhythms, intoxicating smells, and bewitching colors of the carnival. The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art.  As the boat the bears the image is docking, a miracle occurs and Saint Barbara comes to life, disappearing into the milling crowd on the quay.  Somewhere in the city a young woman has fallen in love, and her prudish guardian aunt has locked her away--an act of intolerance that Saint Barbara must redress.  And when she casts her spell over the city, no one's life will remain unchanged.

From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia A Penguin Classic The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all—the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist—until it is too late—not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao “colonels”; and not Juca, whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle’s harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.