Books by Jorge Amado and Complete Book Reviews

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Jorge Amado, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Bantam Books $19 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-34666-4
``Amado's 22nd novel is an unfocused and somewhat maudlin epic set in the lawless wilds of the Bahian jungle, where thugs and prostitutes ply their dismal trades amidst arbitrary bloodshed and hardship,'' wrote PW , calling this ``a busy patchwork...
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The War of the Saints
The War of the Saints
Jorge Amado, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Dial Press $15.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-37440-7
This charming, carnivalesque novel tells of a religious statue that comes to life in the Brazillian city of Bahia. (Mar.)
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Jorge Amado, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Bantam Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05174-2
Brazilian writer Amado's 22nd novel is an unfocused and somewhat maudlin epic set in the lawless wilds of the Bahian jungle, where thugs and prostitutes ply their dismal trades amidst arbitrary bloodshed and hardship. Despite the many dangers posed...
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Captains of the Sands
Captains of the Sands
Jorge Amado, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Avon Books $7.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-380-89718-6
This first English-language edition of a 50-year-old novel by the popular Brazilian author of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands et al. is the last of a series of six he wrote about his native Bahia, which is a Brazilian state. The ""captains'' of the...
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The War of the Saints
The War of the Saints
Jorge Amado, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Bantam $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09537-1
Bahia, the author's hometown and the liveliest city in lively Brazil, is the setting for this charming, sensuous novel. Many of its citizens are adherents of candomble , a syncretic religion that mixes the Catholic saints with African deities. Dom...
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The Golden Harvest
The Golden Harvest
Jorge Amado, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator Avon Books $12.5 (359p) ISBN 978-0-380-76100-5
At the center of Brazilian writer Amado's novel--originally published in 1944 and translated into English here for the first time--is the cacao tree, whose seeds are used in chocolate-making. Amado ( The Violent Land ) chronicles the effects of a...
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