Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Amado
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil
- Principal Characters: Dona Flor dos Guimarães, Waldomiro Guimarães (Vadinho), Dr. Teodoro Madureira
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Love or romance, Marriage, Polygamy or bigamy, Death or dying, Remarriage, Widows or widowers, South America or South Americans
- Locales: Bahia, Brazil
The Novel
As the novel begins, it is the first Sunday of Carnival in Bahia, and Waldomiro Guimarães, known by everyone as Vadinho, husband of Dona Flor, has just died while dancing the samba, dressed as a woman, with a large cassava tuber tied under his skirt. With this beginning, Amado introduces the reader to a rollicking, bawdy world inhabited, it seems at times, by the entire population of Brazil.
The novel is divided into five parts, each part chronicling a segment of Dona Flor’s life, the first dealing with Vadinho’s death, wake, and burial, and the stirring...
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