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A tale of a disintegrating family, set in a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, finds identical twins Yaqub and Omar vying for their mother's attention.

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes -- a gambler notorious for never winning -- dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husbandʹs amorous attentions;...

As the Portuguese socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy family is accused of economic sabotage and plans an escape across the border to Spain. But the patriarch lies dying and his greedy son-in-law is scheming to secure the remains of the crumbling estate for himself.

A tale of two men's experiences with a native Indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest. Despite their separate missions, both men converge in their respect for the native culture and their zeal to protect the Indians from imminent invasion.

Follows three boys from one of the most brutal, violent, and corrupt slums in Rio de Janeiro from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period when the only spark of hope comes from the story of a boy who wants to be a photographer.

"New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable. However, work has occasional odd errors and omissions, and fails to give sufficient attention to Machado's rhythm and syntax. Given Rabassa's vast experience as a translator, it is hard not to suspect that carelessness and haste explain the mistakes and lapses. Also poorly edited and inadequately proofread"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. "Be aware...

Novel in which Master Graciliano - so meticulous that he came to appear at the printing press at the time the book entered the press, to check whether the review would interfere with his text - reaches the maximum of an expression he had been seeking in his prose.

Enchanted by Nina Bonita's black skin, a white rabbit determines to find a way to have children as beautiful and black as she is.