Publisher: Knopf Date of Publication: 1962 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the stated Knopf First American Edition from1962. Other than a clippedback cardholder flyleaf (ex libris), a bit of scoliosis, and flyleaf tospine could usetape (fully intact!),both the mylar-covered DJ and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, etc.--and the pages and binding are tight as a drumAcceptable

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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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Bookseller: BARRYS BARGAIN BIN (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BB11167
Title: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Author: Amado, Jorge
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394425979
ISBN 13: 9780394425979
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Place of Publication: Ny
This edition first published: 1962
Bookseller catalogs: FICTION;

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