THE WAR OF THE SAINTS.
by Amado, Jorge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0553095374
- ISBN 13
- 9780553095371
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Bantam,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. An exuberant story of love and freedom triumphant set during festival time in the Brazilian city of Bahia. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. "The statue of Santa Barbara of the Thunder, most holy of icons, is bound for the city of Bahia to be enshrined at the Museum of Sacred Art. Despite all precautions, however, the unthinkable has happened: The lovely statue has vanished." But not stolen: St Barbara has come to live. Glossary. 357 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43605
- Title
- THE WAR OF THE SAINTS.
- Author
- Amado, Jorge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0553095374
- ISBN 13
- 9780553095371
- Publisher
- Bantam,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1993.)
- Keywords
- translation, brazil, magic realism,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Latin American Lit and History;
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