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Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onís

By:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001

Contributor(s):

De Onis, Harriet, , 1899-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage International , 2006.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 553 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780307276643

Uniform titles:

Dona Flor e seus dois maridos . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC AMA

LOC classification:

PQ9697.A647 D618 2006

Summary: 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.

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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.

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