The violent land
Amado, Jorge, 1912-20012013
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The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all - the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness and blood, which promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum. It is a song most cannot resist until it is too late - not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao 'colonels'; and not Juca, whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle's harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction.
Main title:
The violent land / Jorge Amado ; translated by Samuel Putnam ; introduction by Alfred Mac Adam.
Author:
Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001, authorPutnam, Samuel, 1892-1950, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2013.London : Penguin Classics, 2013.
Collation:
304 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780143106371 (pbk)
Dewey class:
869.341
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
1200177