The Violent Land

Jorge Amado, Samuel Putnam, Samuel Putnam , Alfred Mac Adam

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Penguin
24 July 2013

From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all--the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist--until it is too late--not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao colonels ; and not Juca, whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle's harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction.

By: Jorge Amado
Introduction by: Alfred Mac Adam
Translated by: Samuel Putnam, Samuel Putnam
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780143106371
ISBN 10: 0143106376
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 24 July 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Samuel Putnam (1892-1950) was a translator and scholar of Romance languages, famous for his English translation of Don Quixote. <br>Alfred Mac Adam is a professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College and Columbia University. He lives in New York. <br>