Gabriella garofano e cannella

Ah, Gabriela, scent and color, a beautiful young woman, almost still a girl, who arrived in the city with a rag-tag band of starving, dirty immigrants from the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1920s. (I added a funny TBR story about this book at the end.) Although he’s not in the title, much o Leggi tutto

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 amazi Leggi tutto

Recently I saw that a reader on GR had started Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon and I instantly felt delighted to see that title come up - rather like unexpectedly running into a friend from your past. Years ago I read a great deal of South American literature and this novel has remained one of my favo Leggi tutto

Loved this book. I think Jorge Amado is my favourite writer in the Portuguese language. I also really anjoyed Capitaes de arreia. The story is colourfull, characters really come to life and the language is pretty straightforward. Looking forward to the next Amado novel.

Colonels, Cacao, and Country Matters Jorge Amado must have been a kind, romantic man who loved life. He was also a Communist for many years because he had seen the oppression of Brazilian laborers in the cacao plantations of the northern state of Bahia, a place he must have loved. He had to leave the Leggi tutto

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