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Gabriela. Clove and Cinnamon.
by Amado, Jorge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).
- Seller
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Fair Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
New York.: Alfred A Knopf. , 1962.. Reprint. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo. . Very scarce in this condition.
Synopsis
Jorge Amado—novelist, journalist, lawyer—was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was nineteen. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the thirties and forties would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels—Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands—which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most reknowned writers of the Latin American boom of the sixties, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Dona Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookMine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227718
- Title
- Gabriela. Clove and Cinnamon.
- Author
- Amado, Jorge
- Format/Binding
- Gilt decorated hard cover.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar).
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- 1962.
- Pages
- 426 pps.
- Size
- Octavo.
Terms of Sale
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Fair Oaks, California
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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