Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado's Brazilian novel of a bar owner and his cook in the cacao town of Ilhéus, in the 2006 Vintage paperback.
Jorge Amado published Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon in Brazil in 1958, and it reached English readers in 1962. The story is set in the 1920s during a cacao boom. Nacib Saad, a bar owner of Syrian origin, falls for Gabriela, a migrant worker he hires as his cook, while the town’s planters fight a political struggle of their own. Paulo Coelho calls Amado the best Brazilian writer, one who showed the Brazilian spirit to the world.
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Paulo Coelho
Amado is the best Brazilian writer. He portrayed the Brazilian spirit to the world.
Article · June 2008
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