Jorge Amado
Paperback | Pages: 325 pages Rating: 4.11 | 6122 Users | 414 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Gabriela, Cravo e Canela |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Literary Awards: | Prêmio Jabuti for Romance (1959), Prêmio Machado de Assis, Prêmio Paula Brito, da antiga Prefeitura do Distrito Federal, Prêmio Luísa Cláudia de Sousa do PEN Clube do Brasil, Prêmio Carmem Dolores Barbosa, da Câmara Brasileira do Livro |
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Gabriela, clavo y canela es una bella metáfora del cambio y el progreso. La historia de Ilhéus, pequeño pueblo de Brasil donde se desarrolla la novela, sirve de marco al autor para relatar varias historias, entre ellas, la más importante, el amor entre Gabriela y Nacib.El lector recorre junto con los protagonistas el trayecto que conduce al motivo argumental de la novela: la llegada de la modernidad a Ilhéus, reflejándose en las instituciones, las costumbres y aun en la conciencia de los personajes.
Amado lleva al lector a hacer un recorrido deslumbrante en el que la gastronomía, la sensualidad y los placeres ocupan un primer plano y se encargan de poner de manifiesto su capacidad narrativa para captar la vida y el movimiento que dan sustancia a esta obra.
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| Title | : | Gabriela, clavo y canela |
| Author | : | Jorge Amado |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 325 pages |
| Published | : | by Editorial Diana (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Brazil. Classics. Romance |
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Ratings: 4.11 From 6122 Users | 414 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Gabriela, clavo y canela
Life was good, one only had to live it. To warm oneself in the sun, then take a cold bath; to eat guavas and mangos, to sing songs, to sleep with a young man. And to dream of another.Sneer if you want. Roll your eyes in disbelief and say there he goes again, he reads a good book then praises it to high heavens. I tell you this, however: this one is pure, unadulterated pleasure from its first page to the last. It is more than amazing, or unforgettable. And what is more than amazing or unforgettable? I don't know. Maybe, one can describe it like how Gabriela's seasoning (she is a cook) is described, tongue-in-cheek, in this book: somewhere between the sublime and the divine.
What a nice story. Amado created a perfect univers; as you read, you feel you are part of that univers. you live there together with Gabriela and the others. there is so much you can write about this book, there are so many concepts you can extract from it. The book is the brasilian society during the cacao boom. What i read in Galeano's book (the open veins of Latin America),i got to experience here, but in another form, as a novel.This is a feel good book, which you don't want to end. A book
Written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado in 1950's, the story takes place in the Bahia region of Brazil. The time is 1920's and the town of Ilheus is on the verge of transformation thanks to it's burgeoning cacao trade. The two main plots of the story consist of the politics of power (the older cacao plantation owners trying to retain power in the face of new, younger outsiders who would like to modernize Ilheus quickly) and the love story between two major character, Nacib and Gabriela.
First of all, this book is a pure delight, right from the first page. Amados prose is awesome and witty, hot and sunny as Brazilian sun itself. I love it from title-page to colophon! The story does have something in common with graceful Dona Flor in terms of the mood and abundance of good Brazilian cooking, it provides a certain flashback to the time of cacao planters golden rush in the good city of Ilheus. Amado brings up vital questions of civilizing world the attitudes towards women and
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a story of a city struggling to find its identity. As the city of Ileus experiences a burst of wealth due to its cacao plantations, it is caught between embracing the radical new ideas brought by migrants and holding on to its older traditions. These conflicting ideas are represented by two primary characters in the story, Colonel Ramiro and Mundhino Falcao. Colonel Ramiro, on the conservative side, is the kingmaker in the city of Ilehus and its neighboring
Years ago, at a book club meeting, a guy whose taste I admired said that this was his all-time favorite book. I didn't stay in that group very long, but the name of the book stuck in my head and at some point I picked up a copy. Prompted by a book challenge to read a book in translation, I finally read it. It's good, very good, but it's not what I was expecting. The Gabriela of the title is certainly one of the main characters, but the book is not about her. It's about a small town in the
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