The Violent LandIn this short novel, the aristocratic Badaros family is pitted against the middle-class planter Colonel Horacio Silveira in a struggle to obtain a crucial piece of land for the growing of cacao. Amado's true subject - and one he frequently comes back to - is the effect of the Bahia region's vast cacao plantations on the local citizens and the communities in which they live. the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia"--Publisher's website. |
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