Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Jorge Amado

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
12 September 2006
Pages
448
ISBN
9780307276650

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Jorge Amado

Ilheus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonca discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot…

No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular cafe and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?

Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life.

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