Tieta [Paperback]

Jorge Amado (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1988

Banished by her father for her flagrantly promiscuous behavior, Tieta returns years later at the age of 44. Thinking her a rich and respectable widow, Tieta's family welcomes her. Later her family learns about the other life she has led--as the Madam of San Paolo' most magnificent brothel.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 671 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (P) (October 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380754770
• ISBN-13: 978-0380754779
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,458,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is awesome, a must read., April 14, 1998

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[e-mail] (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:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Story, February 18, 2009

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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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reading, August 9, 2002

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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.