Jorge Amado, Gabriela, cravo e canela [Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon]

Jay Corwin (University of Cape Town)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.2: Brazilian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1958

Places

Brazil (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Gabriela, cravo e canela

[Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon] (1958) is the twelfth published work of Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado (1912-2001). It was widely popular in Brazil at the time of its publication, selling out its initial printing of twenty thousand copies in two weeks. It was subsequently translated into dozens of languages, and received five literary awards in Brazil in 1959, including the prestigious Prêmio Machado de Assis from the Instituto Nacional do Livro.

Set in the Bahian town of São Jorge dos Ilhéus in 1925, Gabriela, cravo e canela depicts the lives of the townspeople through a seasonal harvest of cacao, and treats topics such as interracial love, marriage, honour killing, tradition, and progress. It may be viewed partially as a didactic novel on account of the strong

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Citation: Corwin, Jay. "Gabriela, cravo e canela". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 August 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14359, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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