Jorge Amado

"Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares...

Story of cacao and cuckoldry in a Bahian seaport in the 1920's, and of a Brazilian jungle beauty who changes the mores of the town.

"Mar Morto é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Jorge Amado, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras, publicado em 1936,[1] 'no começo de carreira quando tinha apenas 24 anos. Já era íntimo da alma do mar, com seus mistérios e sortilégios, segredos e encantamentos, crenças e superstições.' Enredo O livro trata, 'com uma prosa poética de ritmo cativante', do nascimento, vida e morte do personagem Guma, que o autor descreve como...

The book is about what happens after Quincas Wateryell, a popular bum who lives in the slums of Salvador, Bahia, is found dead one morning. Two groups of people compete over Quincas's memory: his new friends and his old family.

Explores the life of Pedro Archanjo, a mulatto man who spent his life fighting prejudice.