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The War of the Saints
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.3
EAN: 9780553374407
ISBN: 0553374400
Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: February 01, 1995
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Release Date: February 01, 1995
Studio: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Editorial Review:
Jorge Amado has been called one of the great writers of our time. The joyfulness of his storytelling and his celebration of life's sensual pleasures have found him a loyal following. With The War Of The Saints, he has created an exuberant tale set among the flashing rhythms, intoxicating smells, and bewitching colors of the carnival. The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art. As the boat the bears the image is docking, a miracle occurs and Saint Barbara comes to life, disappearing into the milling crowd on the quay. Somewhere in the city a young woman has fallen in love, and her prudish guardian aunt has locked her away--an act of intolerance that Saint Barbara must redress. And when she casts her spell over the city, no one's life will remain unchanged.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Syncretic Saint Seeks Solution to Sexual Snafus
I've enjoyed reading Jorge Amado's novels for most of my life. I love to get back into that world of tough guys and sexy ladies who get involved in various good causes, helping the poor or saving the environment, but never fail to appreciate each other fully. I admire Amado's interest in the Brazilian religions known as macumba or candomble, religions based on a mixture of African gods and Christian saints and practiced by millions of Brazilians, whether they possess African ancestors or not. ... Read More
Rating:  - War of the Saints
Confusing at times. The book is not written for an English speaking audience (It is translated),and could use footnotes. It is definitely biased against the Catholic Church. It does have it's good points. The recounting of how a marriage turned into what it was, felt real and true to life.
Rating: - A Rich Pageant of Love, Joy and Belief!
Jorge Amado is one of the very finest novelists from Brazil. He combines a rich love for people with a sympathetic view of their life complications. Mix in a little humor, and a tragedy becomes comedy . . . yet the serious commentary remains. His amazing imagination makes the mystical seem as real as what you are holding in your hand. It's almost as though you've entered an alien world, yet on the surface it seems familiar. I'm always reminded on Alice in Wonderland when I read one of his novels.
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Rating: - Magical Bahia
If you don't know Bahia yet, the delicious food of Salvador, the magic of the african Saints, the sensual beauty of brazilian women, the songs of Caetano Veloso, the powerful capoeira and the burning taste of the cachaça this book is for you. Then, if you want to discover one of the grandmaster of the latin american literature, the funniest and sexiest, run to buy this true masterpiece now. Probably the only book I have read twice. Magical and absolutely not to be missed.
Rating: - Viva Amado!!!
No one has reviewed this yet??!!! If you want a novel that tells an actual story, a novel that has somehow missed the postmodern worship of irony and minimalism, a novel where the characters are not monosyllabic yuppies picking the scabs of their psychic pain, then this book is for you. This novel is ALIVE!!! Sex, religion, politics, magical realism, are combined with the sights and smells of Amado's native Bahia to form one of the best (and most fun) books I have read in a very long time. Do yourself ... Read More
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