Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars (Portuguese: Tereza Batista Cansada de Guerra) is a Brazilian modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1972...

Cantonese) (Drama, Romance); from novel by Richard Mason Tereza Batista (Patrícia França) in Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars (1992) by Paulo Afonso Grisolli...

celebration of the traditions and the beauties of Bahia. In addition to Gabriela these novels included Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars and Dona Flor...

joined the gallery of the author's great female characters, alongside Gabriela, Dona Flor and Tereza Batista. Banished for promiscuity at the age of 17...

despised them. Gradually, they go home, leaving Quincas to be watched by his friends from the slum. The cold reception that the news of Quincas's death is received...

the romance between Nacib Saad, a respectable bar owner of Syrian origin, and his new cook Gabriela, an innocent and captivating migrant worker from the...

Dona Flor, Tereza Batista, and Tieta. Like other Amado novels, Pen, Sword, Camisole combines comic farce and biting satire. Unlike most of the other novels...

and his absence was, for Dona Flor, worse than the long nights when she waited for him to come home. After a period of mourning, Dona Flor attracts another...

published in the magazine Hosteni) Srikrishna Alanahalli – Kaadu Jorge Amado – Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra (Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars) Eric Ambler...

ages range from seven to sixteen and they live by begging, gambling, stealing and burglary in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The protagonist...

1969, reworked various themes from Jubiabá. The novel tells the story of the friendship between a poor black youngster from Salvador de Bahia, Antonio Balduino...

with the hard life of the laborers in the cocoa plantations, and his experience formed the basis for this novel. Unlike in his first novel, the present...

The War of the Saints (Portuguese: O Sumiço da Santa) is a Brazilian Modernist novel by Jorge Amado first published in 1988. An English translation by...

permeate the author's work can already be seen, albeit in an embryonic form. The book is an account of the typical Brazilian intelligentsia of the 1920s...

The Discovery of America by the Turks, his wife, Zélia Gattai, describes how she rescued the rejected manuscript from the trash can and saved it. The...

Alves, a biography of the poet from Bahia, before going into exile in Uruguay and Argentina, where he researched the life of the revolutionary leader Luís...

the main plaza, where Archanjo works as a lowly runner at the School of Medicine adjacent to the cathedral. The place of the title is the home of the...

Shepherds of the Night is really three long, interrelated short stories, sharing many of the same characters as well as bringing in characters from earlier...

struggle from his campaigning uncle. In writing the biography, Amado exhibits what has been called "devout admiration" for the poet, who is seen as the "romantic...

Janeiro. The novel won the Graça Aranha award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters in the same year. Sea of Death was Jorge Amado’s fifth novel and the fifth...

and expect nothing more from life". Amado writes that he had the action take place "in one of those strange tenements on the Ladeiro do Pelourinho" in...

Home Is the Sailor (Portuguese: Os velhos marinheiros ou o capitão de longo curso, lit. "The old sailors or the long haul captain ") is a Brazilian modernist...

. . is as dear to me as The Violent Land, in it lie my roots; it is from the blood from which I was created; it contains the gunfire that resounded during...

in 1984. The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande ("big ambush" in Portuguese), in a fertile agricultural zone in the state of...

The Golden Harvest (Portuguese: São Jorge dos Ilhéus) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado from 1942 to 1944, published in Portuguese...

three novels were published in 1954. In the first five editions they were published as a single volume, but from the sixth edition they were released as three...

The book was first published in 1945, but was revised for subsequent editions to reflect the many changes to the urban environment. It is far from being...

recorded in The Grapiuna Boy. Navegação de cabotagem contains memories from the mid-1920s onwards, including observations on his own works and on the television...

1945, but disappeared from bookstores after the military coup of 1964. The next edition was not published until 1979. Throughout the biography Jorge Amado...

his presidency, the Tereza de Jesus Shelter was founded in 1919, a traditional charitable institution that has survived to this day. The centralizing role...