Tent of Miracles

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About the author

Jorge Amado is the acclaimed author of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars. Highly successful film and Broadway versions of Dona Flor have brought worldwide recognition to Brazil's foremost living novelist

Summary

Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect "discovers" his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Amado
• Assisted by: Barbara Shelby Merello (Translation), B. Shelby (Translation)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2003
• EAN: 9780299186449
• ISBN: 978-0-299-18644-9
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 209 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Americas; Americas Series; Americas; The Americas Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature