View cart Help Rare Books Textbooks ... Search Search for books By author: By title: By keyword or ISBN: By binding: Any Hardcover Paperback Advanced booksearch @Biblio Search for books Advanced search ISBN search Discount books ... Rare books Browse books Bookstores Community BiblioUnbound The monthly newsletter for booklovers E-mail address: The War of the Saints ISBN: ISBN-13: Format: Hardcover Summary Amado's story of a religious statue that comes to life takes place during Carnaval in Bahia. Jorge Amado describes his novel as "the small tale of Adalgisa and Manela and a few other descendants of the love between the Spaniard Francisco Romero Perez y Perez and Andreza da Anunciacao, the beautiful Andreza de Yansan, a dark mulatto girl." Customer Reviews Be the first to review this book! Media Reviews "A novel of great richness, composed by one of the masters of 20th century literature." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Through the lighthearted, lively, rhythmical Carnaval atmosphere that Mr. Amado so engagingly evokes-as if he were synthesizing elements of primitive art within an intentionally naive style-he manages to animate the animistic side of his native land. As a result, even extreme magic realism seems perfectly normal in Mr. Amado's Bahia....[A] triumphantly satirical epic that takes to pieces critics and professors, Marxists and fascists, generals and judges, priests and politicians and policemen - in short, anyone with any power in Brazil. And, at the same time, the novel lionizes the people of Bahia (many of them real), especially the artists, poets and musicians, the innocents and the lovers, the priests and priestesses..." Allen Josephs | |
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