Amado, Jorge

New York. 1975. July 1975. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0394487524. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. 555 pages. hardcover. Photo by Alfred A. Knopf. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Behold her, Tereza Batista-inspiration to painters, poets, and sculptors (not to mention sailors on shore leave), teacher of the ignorant, lover of the powerful (and powerful lover), healer of the sick, champion of the downtrodden, seasoned veteran-at the peak of her beauty-of life's wars. No wonder the people of Bahia call her, in awe and delight, Tereza of the Thousand Nicknames-all complimentary! Gaze on Tereza ‘with her honey sweetness, her swaying walk, her joy in living, her color like copper.' Follow Tereza from her birth into direst poverty and bad luck (orphaned before she knew her parents, enslaved at the age of 12) to the great day when she turns the tables on that most splenetic and sadistic of slaveholders, the black-hearted Captain Justo Duarte da Rosa. From her education in grammar, love, and self-esteem as last mistress (established in a mansion fit for a millionairess) of the noble patriarch, Dr. Emiliano Guedes. From her Lysistratan strategies as chief-of-staff of the armies of heroic whores on strike, defying a police order formally entided ‘Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Back to Work We Go,' to her ultimate recognition as Bahia's best- beloved, blazing Empress of the Brazilian Samba, marvelous Muse, Protectress, Font of Wisdom, the most desired and admired courtesan of city and environs, her own woman, honored by all. Tereza Batista-rebounding from every buffet stronger (and more delicious) than before. inventory #3843 ISBN: 0394487524.