Eleven Books by Jorge Amado
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Overview: JORGE AMADO (1912-2001) was a Brazilian writer whose modernist stories of life in the eastern state of Bahia won captured the public imagination and international acclaim. Translated into 49 languages, his books reflect Brazil’s culture, inequalities and contradictions, and have been adapted into films, theatrical works and TV programs.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Jubiabá
Amado’s powerful novel of emancipation and betrayal, set in Bahia in the early 1930s, pulses with the exotic tropical imaginings and passionate desires that have made him internationally renowned. JUBIABA is the story of Antonio Balduino, a street urchin who abandons a desperate life as a champion circus-boxer and a balladeer to join the local workers jn their struggle against oppression. The spirit of JUBIABA, the medicine man who inspires Antonio in his youth, follows Antonio’s odyssey through tragedy and despair, teaching him to "love all those. ..who were shaking off the fetters of slavery."
Golden Harvest
A conspiracy of cacao-exporters attempts to destroy the plantation owners of Bahia, Brazil, by encouraging their weaknesses, and the struggle divides families and friends on all levels of society.
Tereza Batista: Home From the Wars
Her story unfolds with brilliance and luminous intensity, a masterpiece of contemporary literature by Brazil’s foremost novelist. It is the story of Tereza, the twelve-year-old girl who is sold into slavery by her aunt. It is the story of Tereza, the young woman, who is jailed for defending her lover only to find him untrue. And it is the story of Tereza, reigning goddess of love – inspiration to poets, painters, and sailors on leave; mistress of a noble patriarch; chief-of-staff to the armies of whores on strike; and triumphant Queen of the Samba – desired, admired, and honored by all.
Tieta
On the sand dunes of Mangue Seco, Tieta the goat girl finds on what a man tastes like, the mixture of sea salt and sweat, sand an wind. When the peddler forces her open, she bleats as the nanny goat had bleated, in fulfillment and pain.
Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
After a decade of revelry among the bums, pimps, and prostitutes, Quincas Wateryell, king of the Bahia lowlife, goes to meet his Maker. His prim family promptly claims the corpse for a proper burial. But even in his middle-class coffin, Quincas still sneers at them. And when four of his cronies and a bottle of rum arrive at the wake, Quincas decides the party might be too good to miss.
Home is the Sailor
The sleepy Brazilian beach resort needed a hero. And when retired Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao arrives, the townspeople are enthralled by his tales of exploits and exotic romance on the five oceans. Through these vicarious voyages they meet dangers they had never taken on, and sinful, voluptuous women they, alas, had never bedded down. Only Chico Pacheco, the local hero whose storytelling eminence has been undermined, delves into the captain’s past—and discovers that he has never set foot on an oceangoing deck. But when the ship Ita comes into Bahia with her captain dead—and Captain Vasco is pressed into her service—the landlocked dreamer begins an adventure in love and seamanship that surpasses his fantasies.
Tent of Miracles
A very rich and exotic novel . . . tells the story of Pedro Archanjo, mestizo, self-taught ethnologist, apostle of miscegenation, laborer, cult priest, and bon vivant. . . . Amado’s joyous, exuberant, almost magical descriptions of festivals, puppet shows, African rituals, local legends, fascinating customs, strange and wonderful characters . . . result in a richness and warmth that are impossible to resist.
Show Down
Amado’s largest, most magnificent novel to date is set in earthy, tropical Brazil. It is an unforgettable tale of the frontier full of violence and courage, lust and adventure.
Shepherds of the Night
This work can be described tersely but not unfairly as a contribution to the debate on Brazilian self-definition, rendered ineffective by being cast in the form of pastoral. Amado’s theme is the life of the Bahian poor: not the whole of their lives, for we seldom glimpse them at the back-breaking work that must occupy some of their waking hours, but their leisure life. His scene is laid in cheap brothels, alleys, shanties on the beaches, and in those hidden shrines on the mountainsides where the priests and priestesses of Ogun or Oxala exact their rites…Novels aren’t any worse for having no ‘social message’; but it’s strange to find one which handles so much social material without taking it somewhere, only moving it from place to place.
Pen, Sword, Camisole
The pompous Nazi colonel was determined to occupy a vacant chair in the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Add to this outrage the fact that he was after the very seat vacated by the death of celebrated poet Antonio Bruno, a lover of many women and one city, Paris, whose fall to the Germans had struck his heart with the force of a bullet.
But what force on Earth could keep the Nazi’s fat bottom from resting on a velvet seat of the Immortal Forty? It would take an audacious plan spawned by the cunning minds of two ageing academicians…the irresistible sexuality of the women Bruno had loved…and a will to win againstthe odds….
The War of the Saints
Jorge Amado has been called one of the great writers of our time. The joyfulness of his storytelling and his celebration of life’s sensual pleasures have found him a loyal following. With The War Of The Saints, he has created an exuberant tale set among the flashing rhythms, intoxicating smells, and bewitching colors of the carnival. The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art. As the boat the bears the image is docking, a miracle occurs and Saint Barbara comes to life, disappearing into the milling crowd on the quay. Somewhere in the city a young woman has fallen in love, and her prudish guardian aunt has locked her away–an act of intolerance that Saint Barbara must redress. And when she casts her spell over the city, no one’s life will remain unchanged.
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