Full name: Tereza Batista: Home From the Wars

Author: Jorge Amado Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780380754687 9780380017522 0380754681 0380017520

Her story unfolds with brilliance and luminous intensity, a masterpiece of contemporary literature by Brazil's foremost novelist. It is the story of Tereza, the twelve-year-old girl who is sold into slavery by her aunt. It is the story of Tereza, the young woman, who is jailed for defending her lover only to find him untrue. And it is the story of Tereza, reigning goddess of love - inspiration to poets, painters, and sailors on leave; mistress of a noble patriarch; chief-of-staff to the armies of whores on strike; and triumphant Queen of the Samba - desired, admired, and honored by all. Similar books: Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 2666 by Roberto Bolano Buying the Farm by Kimberly Conn Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar Harbor of the Heart by Katherine Spencer We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Everyman by Philip Roth The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton