Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil,
whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela,
Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
Gregory Rabassa(translator; 1922-2016)was a National Book
Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works
byGabriel Garcia Marquez,Mario Vargas Llosa,Julio Cortazar, and
Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.
Colm T ibin (introduction)is the bestselling author of numerous
novels, including the Costa Award-winning Brooklyn and the Pulitzer
Prize and Booker Prize finalist The Master.
“Amado was writing to save his country’s soul. . . . The scenes
where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city
and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles
Dickens proud.” —Colm Tóibín, from the Introduction
“Indispensable . . . if you want to feel the intensity of life on
the streets of Salvador.” —Itamar Vieira Junior, The New York
Times
"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."—The
New York Times
“Brazil’s leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around
the world!” —Newsweek
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