by Jorge Amado, Harriet De Onis (Translator)
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.
ISBN-13: 9780307276643
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Series: Vintage International Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral Tale
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He was the best known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1978. His work reflects the image of a mestizo Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
ISBN-13: 9780307276643
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Series: Vintage International Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 576
- Fiction | Literary - Brazil -Love stories - Man-woman relationships
-Widows - Remarriage -Marriage