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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;...
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"Las noches de Bahía están pobladas de hombres singulares: desde el capitán Marítim, desgraciado en su matrimonio, y Tiberia, la sabia patrona del burdel más prestigioso del lugar, hasta Beatriz, la célebre echadora de cartas. Entre delirios de amor, aullidos de pasión y largas charlas delante de un buen vino, los hombres y mujeres de Jorge Amado celebran la fragilidad de aquellos seres humanos que se reconocen en la imperfección más absoluta...
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Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot ... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular cafe;...
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