Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Sao Paulo's highest political and financial circles--as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese
Original Language: Portugese
About the Author
Jorge Amado is the acclaimed author of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars. Highly successful film and Broadway versions of Dona Flor have brought worldwide recognition to Brazil's foremost novelist.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is awesome, a must read.,
By SergioVad@mailexcite.com (California, USA.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tieta (Paperback)
This was the first Amado book I read and it is problably the best to start with. The book combines both political commentary, comedy and sex in a way that you will be glued to the book from beginning to end. Also a feature of this book which makes it extra interesting is how the author stops the book and talks to you, it is as if he were right in front of you. It makes the books so personal and even better. If you like this book or Jorge Amado, please email me.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A Great Story,
By Samuel Spade "samspade" (hampton nh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tieta (THE AMERICAS) (Paperback)
This book made my Jorge Amado my favorite writer, ever. He is such a great story teller, and this story really moved along with a great cast of characters. I don't know anyone else who quite captures his style. He has little asides to the reader in it, and he is quite hilarious. This book was over 650 pages long and I was truly sorry to see it end! Just wish they'd make it a movie...
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Great reading,
By Carlos Tapia (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tieta (Paperback)
Out of any doubt, one of the best latinoamerican novel. It`s beutiful, unforgetable, merely a big pleasure read this master piece. Politics, Poetry, Sex, brasilian landscape, an many another subjects are here. You wont regret of buying this book.Jorge Amado`s reading is a kind of happiness.
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