Doña Flor y sus dos maridos : historia moral y de amor

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Title:

Doña Flor y sus dos maridos : historia moral y de amor

Other title(s):

Doña Flor y sus 2 maridos

Uniform Title:

Dona Flor e seus dois maridos. Spanish

Author:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.

ISBN:

9780307279552

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Nueva York : Vintage Español, 2008.

Physical Description:

478 pages ; 21 cm.

Series title(s):

Vintage español.

General Note:

Large print.

Summary:

¿Es posible que una mujer ame a dos hombres al mismo tiempo? A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador p?caro Vadinho dos Guimares?empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible?muere durante el carnaval. Su desconsolada esposa se dedica a la cocina y a sus amigas, hasta que conoce al joven doctor Teodoro. Pero despu?s de la boda, pasionalmente insatisfecha, Do?a Flor empieza a so?ar con las atenciones amorosas de su primer marido. Pronto el propio Vadinho reaparecer?, dispuesto a reclamar sus derechos conyugales.

Can a woman love two men at the same time? The charming rogue Vadinho dos Guimares, an incorrigible, inveterate gambler and womanizer, dies during Carnival. His wife Dona Flor is distraught, until she meets the young Dr. Theodore. But after their wedding, passionately unsatisfied, Dona Flor begins to dream about the amorous attentions of her first husband. Vadinho himself soon reappears, ready to claim his conjugal rights.

Subject(s):

Widows -- Brazil -- Fiction.

Marriage -- Fiction.

Spanish language materials.

Spanish language materials -- Fiction.

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Spanish language materials.

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¿Es posible que una mujer ame a dos hombres al mismo tiempo?

A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador pícaro Vadinho dos Guimares--empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible--muere durante el carnaval. Su desconsolada esposa se dedica a la cocina y a sus amigas, hasta que conoce al joven doctor Teodoro y decide asentarse.

Pero después de la boda, pasionalmente insatisfecha, Doña Flor empieza a soñar con las atenciones amorosas de su primer marido. Pronto el propio Vadinho reaparecerá, dispuesto a reclamar sus derechos conyugales.

Jorge Amado, uno de los escritores más importantes en Latinoamérica, ha dado vida a tres personajes literarios de fama mundial. Doña Flor y sus maridos es un auténtico clásico que ratifica que toda gran historia de amor y sensualidad posee un ingrediente sobrenatural.

Author Notes

Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001 Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Jorge Amado possesses a talent for storytelling as well as a deep concern for social and economic justice. He was born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1912.

Some critics claim that his early works suffer from his politics. Others commonly express reservations concerning Amado's sentimentality and erotico-mythic stereotyping. In the works represented in English translation, his literary merits prevail. The Violent Land (1942) chronicles the development of Brazilian territory and struggles for its resources, memorializing the deeds of those who built the country. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958), which achieved critical and popular success in both Brazil and the United States, tells a sensual love story of a Syrian bar owner and his beautiful cook. Home Is the Sailor (1962) introduces Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, a comic figure in the tradition of Don Quixote. In Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Amado introduced the folk culture of shamans and Yorube gods. The protagonists of Shepherds of the Night (1964) are Bahia's poor.

(Bowker Author Biography)