| Edition |
First Vintage International edition. |
| Description |
553 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language |
Translated from the Portuguese. |
| Note |
This translation originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1969. |
| 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 husbandʹs amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights. -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Fiction.
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Widows -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Romance fiction, Brazilian.
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Brazil -- Fiction.
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Magic realism (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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Love stories.
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Fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
De Onís, Harriet, 1899-1969, translator.
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| Added Title |
Dona Flor e seus dois maridos. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001. Dona Flor e seus dois maridos. English. Dona Flor and her two husbands. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, 2006, ©1969 (OCoLC)608161651 |
| ISBN |
9780307276643 (paperback) |
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0307276643 (paperback) |
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