Brazilian Lit - Jorge Amado
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1jveezer
I just finished The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado. I believe that Dona Flor and her Two Husbands and Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon are his two most popular novels; I just happened upon this one in a used bookstore. I really enjoyed the it so I'm very interested now in the other two. The only other Brazilian author I have read is Jose Sarney. I read Master of the Sea for the Early Reviewers. While I liked it, I much preferred the Amado book.
I liked how he portrayed the fusion of Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions and how that fusion affected the more conservative and liberal people in the novel.
I liked how he portrayed the fusion of Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions and how that fusion affected the more conservative and liberal people in the novel.
2estellak
It's been a long time but I've read a number of his books. I enjoyed Tent of Miracles for it's fusion of music/musical instruments/dance and Afro-Brazilian religions. It even has a glossary of terms. Dona Flor is a lot about Brazilian food and cooking (Dona Flor teaches a cooking class). I've read Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Tereza Batista : home from the wars, Sea of death and The violent land and still have the tattered paperbacks but don't remember what they were about. I just checked and it seems that he wrote a couple books in the 1990s which sound interesting but I'm not finding them in my local library. I checked Worldcat and it looks like they haven't been translated: O Compadre de Ogun and A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos. You've got me interested in this author again!