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Title | : | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands |
Author | : | Jorge Amado |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
Published | : | September 12th 2006 by Vintage (first published 1966) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Cultural. Brazil. Romance. Classics |
Jorge Amado
Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 4.01 | 6602 Users | 357 Reviews
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It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.Details Books Conducive To Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Original Title: | Dona Flor e seus Dois Maridos |
ISBN: | 0307276643 (ISBN13: 9780307276643) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Dona Flor, Vadinho, Teodoro |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 6602 Users | 357 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Undoubtedly one of the best novels I have ever read about the duality of the human spirit. This novel reached into my heart and mind and drew me into its mystical, magical, superstitious Brazilian tale. Jorge Amado starts by tickling the reader's fancy with a romance between a good girl, Flor, and a lovable, sensual gambler, Vadinho. He is the classic villain we hate to love. That is the skeleton of the story. Amado proceeds to people the Bahian city with fantastic and fantastical characters.i like Amado writing as he has a keen eye for his people and for this you have to travel in your own country. especially Brazil which is so diverse. it is a colorful picture of Brazil. still
This is a beautifully and imaginatively written story about an everyday woman who has to come to terms with different facets of her own personality and what that means about the men she falls in love with and how she loves them in return. She has trouble reconciling her emotions, which seem so contrary to her: her passionate, steamy, violent, up-and-down young romance with her first husband, who dies an untimely death, and her sedate, kind, gentle, secure, and structured but still caring and
Any book that has me constantly thinking of food, sex and magic is amazing in my book.
Wonderful story! The characters are so well developed, and there are stories within stories. I got so involved with the story - I talked about it to anyone who would listen! I recommended it to others and urged them to experience what I had!I laughed out loud! I cheered and shouted!! I got cross! I disliked some of the characters! Fabulous!!
The truth about human nature and human happiness is the message of this story. The middle-class inhabitants of a small neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, have their traditional ideas about everyday life, behavior distinct from the practices of disreputable, immoral lowlifes, artists, and street-corner musicians elsewhere in the town. Their insularity is occasionally challenged by more progressive types among themselves, namely Dona Flor or Dona Norma. Do the deities influence them as well?... does
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a novel about a cooking teacher whose first husband is a charming lowlife, who is always disappearing in search of wine, women, song and roulette, and her second marriage to an upright, responsible, devoted pharmacist who, for all his good qualities, is duller and more reserved. Especially in bed.Having read the long and mildly tedious Island Boy, I picked it up in the hope it would be a bit more fun. Its fiction, its Brazilian, all the blurbs on the cover go on
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