Title : Tocaia Grande - Jorge Amado - Book
Summary :
Tocaïa Grande is first and foremost a place-name, in the region of large cocoa plantations, in the south of the State of Bahia, where there is a stopover lodge frequented by muleteers traveling between the neighboring fazendas, which does not fail to attract a certain number of prostitutes. From there, the grocery store-bar of Fadul is built and soon the blacksmith shop of Castor, known as "Tison". Tocaia Grande is also the "great ambush", set up by Natario de Fonseca, bodyguard and trusted man of a rich and powerful landowner, "Colonel" Andrade, to politically liquidate his only rival in the district and remain sole master of the entire region. Finally, in Tocaia Grande, the traveling merchant Fadul Abdala stops for a night, looking for a suitable place to set up business. These diverse and colorful characters share the desire to be and remain free, which will not always be easy as Tocaia Grande gradually becomes a village, then an increasingly large town. Through a succession of colorful episodes, Jorge Amado superbly tells us the hidden side of the birth of a city and the drama of a community of marginalized people that the law wants to one day reclaim. Tocaia Grande is Jorge Amado's first novel in five years and, upon its publication, has enjoyed unprecedented success in Brazil: 400,000 copies sold in three months. It evokes, in this language that is always so rich and colorful, the love of Brazil, a warm brotherhood towards the humble and this deep knowledge of men that permeates all his work. Jorge Amado, born in 1912, is the undisputed master of the Brazilian novel. His works are published in thirty languages. Editions Stock has published eleven of his books, including The Shepherds of the Night, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Tieta d'Agreste, The Miracle Shop, Cocoa, etc.
- EAN: 9782234018174
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