Jorge Amado – författare

When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilheus, things would never be the same again In 1925, the town's cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns, but Nacib the Arab's most desperate worry is that his cook has walked out of his bar. He ventures over to the market to hire a migrant worker to help him and comes across a young mulatto girl named Gabriela who is wild and has hair filthy with dust. But something in her voice makes him take a chance, and it seems he's not the only man who's noticed her. Suddenly there is more to think about than everyday concerns: love affairs, murder, banquets, funerals, desire, hatred, vengeance and miracles.

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands', a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old 'Bullet', the band - including a crafty liar named 'Legless', the intellectual 'Professor', and the sexually precocious 'Cat' - pulls off heists and escapades against the privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the 'little criminals', the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land. Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil's most acclaimed author.JORGE AMADO (1912-2001), the son of a cocoa planter, was born in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which he would portray in more than twenty-five novels. His first novels, published when he was still a teenager, dramatize the class struggles of workers on Bahian cocoa plantations. Amado was later exiled for his leftist politics, but his novels would always have a strong political perspective. Not until Amado returned to Brazil in the 1950s did he write his acclaimed novels Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (the basis for the successful film and Broadway musical of the same name), which display a lighter, more comic approach than his overtly political novels. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the 1960s, Amado has had his work translated into more than forty-five languages.GREGORY RABASSA is a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.COLM TÓIBÍN, who worked as a journalist in Latin America in the 1980s, is the author of the bestselling novels The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, and Brooklyn.

A Penguin ClassicPublished here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants—“Turks,” as Brazilians call them—who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter.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.

Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect ""discovers"" his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Sao Paulo's highest political and financial circles—as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaThey call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “Bullet,” the band—including a crafty liar named “Legless,” the intellectual “Professor,” and the sexually precocious “Cat”—pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the “little criminals,” the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land.Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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 BahiaThe 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants-"Turks," as Brazilians call them-who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant''s farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Construir la periferia: Procesos, mecanismos y derechos en la ciudad de borde plantea una aproximación crítica al proceso de construcción de la ciudad y las relaciones establecidas entre las distintas dimensiones –económicas, políticas, simbólicas, territoriales– y los actores que ocupan posiciones diferenciadas en la reproducción de sus vidas. La construcción del espacio, entendida como parte de la reproducción social, ha sido examinada desde la perspectiva de la diferenciación socioespacial del territorio. De esta manera, la mirada planteada pone en cuestionamiento los abordajes clásicos de los temas y problemas urbanos, señalando que los mismos no observan contextualmente a la ciudad y, en ese sentido, los aportes realizados hasta el momento son escasos y poco efectivos para intentar solucionar problemáticas urbanas que se presentan cada vez con mayor intensidad, complejidad y expansión. Comprender las relaciones de reproducción social en el territorio implica adentrarse en las lógicas estructurales que orientan la reproducción del capital. Y en ese proceso participan conjuntamente diferentes actores sociales que modifican las articulaciones entre espacio y sociedad, estableciendo condiciones particulares para la construcción de un territorio que se va configurando de acuerdo a una serie de variables que dependen de la coyuntura. Este enfoque aporta argumentos para una explicación sobre la estructuración del territorio en las últimas décadas.

ZHorzhi Amadu izvesten po vsemu miru kak neprevzojdennyj pevec solnechnoj Brazilii. V ego knigah smeshalis'' vse myslimye kraski dalekoj zharkoj strany, gde kruglye sutki zvuchit muzyka, nishcheta vedet nepreryvnuyu vojnu s bogatstvom, a blagochestie uzhivaetsya pod odnoj kryshej s samymi uzhasnymi porokami."Generaly peschanyh kar''erov" — roman osobennyj, pozhaluj, samyj neobychnyj, yarkij i znamenityj iz vsekh proizvedenij Amadu. V nem rasskazana istoriya bandy besprizornikov, nochuyushchih na peschanyh plyazhah Baii. Oni sovershayut derzkie ogrableniya, skryvayutsya ot policii i svyato chtut nepisanye zakony druzhby.

ZHorzhi Amadu (1912–2001) — pozhaluj, samyj izvestnyj v mire brazil''skij pisatel'', predstavitel'' "magicheskogo realizma", avtor proslavlennyh romanov "Generaly peschanyh kar''erov", "Dona Flor i dva ee muzha", "Lavka chudes" i mnogih drugih.ZHitel''nica Baii dona Flor — zemnoe voploshchenie lyubvi i strasti, razuma i temperamenta. Pervyj ee muzh, Gulyaka, umer ot razryva serdca, tancuya ("samozabvenno, kak delal vse, krome raboty") sambu na karnavale, i zhizn'' prekrasnoj dony Flor, kazalos'', tozhe konchilas''. No nashelsya novyj muzh — farmacevt doktor Teodoro: nezhnyj, skromnyj, vernyj, luchshe i ne pridumaesh''… Odnako Gulyaka tozhe ne udalilsya v stranu mertvyh navsegda, i vnov'' i vnov'' razzhigaet v done Flor plotskuyu strast'' — besposhchadno zharkuyu, kak tropicheskoe solnce Brazilii…

Cuando Gabriela, una hermosa mulata analfabeta, llega a Ilheus, ciudad del estado brasileno de Bahia, huyendo del campo y de la miseria, se desencadena un divertido cumulo de pasiones humanas en un abigarrado marco rebosante de sabores, colores y olores. La sugerente Gabriela, su amante -el pintoresco y pragmatico Nacib-, las singulares hermanas Reis y el sempiternamente enamorado profesor Josue son solo los principales personajes de esta inolvidable novela del escritor brasileno Jorge Amado que, empapada de un vitalismo y una sensualidad profundamente ligados a la cultura y las costumbres de su Bahia natal, es una celebracion de la existencia y del humor.

Repentinamente viuda a los treinta anos, Dona Flor, siempre desgarrada entre la voluntad y el instinto, se casa en segundas nupcias con Teodoro, el metodico y pudoroso farmaceutico de Bahia, con quien pretende estabilizar su vida. Pero, para su sorpresa, pronto se vera requerida de nuevo por su primer marido, el incorregible Vadinho, un sensual, holgazan y juerguista calavera que volvera del mas alla con sus capacidades amatorias intactas, dispuesto a poner a prueba la relacion de la ejemplar pareja. Una novela inolvidable que plasma todo el sabor, el humor y el encanto de la vida bahiana.

Escrita en 1991, a raíz de una iniciativa relacionada con el V Centenario del descubrimiento de América, Jorge Amado (1912-2001) da rienda suelta en esta novela a su inagotable capacidad de fabulación, a su irreverente sentido del humor y a su desinhibida vitalidad. Procedentes del entonces aún existente imperio otomano, los "turcos" de Amado son dos inmigrantes árabes (el sirio Jamil Bichara y el libanés Raduan Murad), arribados a Brasil en el mismo barco, como tantos y tantos otros inmigrantes a principios del siglo XX. Sus peripecias tras instalarse en el sur de Bahía, «el Eldorado del cacao», son el eje en torno al cual se hila esta entretenida obra que satisface el placer de la lectura y deja al lector una sonrisa en los labios.