Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Author: Jorge Amado
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendon�a discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot…No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be….Read More
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