Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale
Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onís - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International , 2006. - 553 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Dona Flor e seus dois maridos.
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes - a gambler notorious for never winning - dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husbands amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
9780307276643
2006285179
Marriage----Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Brazil----Fiction
PQ9697.A647 / D618 2006
LAS FIC AMA
Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onís - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage International , 2006. - 553 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Dona Flor e seus dois maridos.
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes - a gambler notorious for never winning - dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husbands amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
9780307276643
2006285179
Marriage----Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Brazil----Fiction
PQ9697.A647 / D618 2006
LAS FIC AMA
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