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Original Portuguese title: «Gabriela, cravo e canela».
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political... read more
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In that year of 1925, when the idyll of the mulatto girl Gabriela and Nacib the Arab began, the rains continued long beyond the proper and necessary season.
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This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
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- Jorge Amado (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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