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Jubiaba
Jubiaba
Author: Jorge Amado
Amado's powerful novel of emancipation and betrayal, set in Bahia in the early 1930s, pulses with the exotic tropical imaginings and passionate desires that have made Amado internationally renowned. Jubiaba is the story of Antonio Balduino, a street urchin who abandons a desperate life as a champion circus boxer and a balladeer to join the local...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380885671
ISBN-10: 0380885670
Publication Date: 10/1984
Pages: 294
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Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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This book was first published in 1931, and it represents the revolution in Brazilian literature. This an excellent piece of work portraying both life in Salvador,Brazil in the early 1930s, and the life of poor black people. I really like this book.
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