After the ambiguous and obscure atmosphere of picaresque The Blind and the Bellona, \u200b\u200ba dip in the atmosphere Enchanted Bahia with sun, music, sex, exotic cuisine and Candoblé.
Reading this extraordinary novel is a fun gift to me for the third time in many years and I still find it irresistible to a succession of lively characters, portrayed with a happy irony, so natural in the prose of Amado, which revolve around Figure sensual Dona Flor.
very beginning with the letter he writes Dona Flor to my good friend Jorge Amado which accompanies the cake puba (a kind of cake made with tapioca balls), one senses the particular nature of this novel, which mixes the story of the widow of Dona Flor, recipes and Bahian cult of Orixas (god syncretism of Christianity and African origin).
's all a series of situations, told with humor and feeling, the death of Vadinho during the carnival, and through a series of flashbacks, it tells the story of the brash young Vadinho with Flor, the joys and the suffering of the latter, the confrontations with the terrible mother-in-law Rozilda, the second marriage of Dona Flor and all that follows.
And 'certainly one of the finest novels of Jorge Amado, verbal and wealth for a' perfect architecture, divided into five parts and a range.
In 1976, following the success of the novel is brought to the screen with the beautiful Sonia Braga, beautiful film even though the part about the things told in 523 pages of the novel. The soundtrack of the film was O Que Sera (A flor from the ground) of Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
meeting with Jorge Amado, and this book in particular is one that will forever remain a long time and after some time, still call imagination, interest and nostalgia for the characters that you grow fond of, as it happens to all the great works of literature.
Reading this extraordinary novel is a fun gift to me for the third time in many years and I still find it irresistible to a succession of lively characters, portrayed with a happy irony, so natural in the prose of Amado, which revolve around Figure sensual Dona Flor.
very beginning with the letter he writes Dona Flor to my good friend Jorge Amado which accompanies the cake puba (a kind of cake made with tapioca balls), one senses the particular nature of this novel, which mixes the story of the widow of Dona Flor, recipes and Bahian cult of Orixas (god syncretism of Christianity and African origin).
's all a series of situations, told with humor and feeling, the death of Vadinho during the carnival, and through a series of flashbacks, it tells the story of the brash young Vadinho with Flor, the joys and the suffering of the latter, the confrontations with the terrible mother-in-law Rozilda, the second marriage of Dona Flor and all that follows.
And 'certainly one of the finest novels of Jorge Amado, verbal and wealth for a' perfect architecture, divided into five parts and a range.
In 1976, following the success of the novel is brought to the screen with the beautiful Sonia Braga, beautiful film even though the part about the things told in 523 pages of the novel. The soundtrack of the film was O Que Sera (A flor from the ground) of Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
meeting with Jorge Amado, and this book in particular is one that will forever remain a long time and after some time, still call imagination, interest and nostalgia for the characters that you grow fond of, as it happens to all the great works of literature.
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