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Dona Flor and her two husbands : a moral and amorous tale / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 2006, c1969.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 553 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780307276643 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Dona Flor e seus dois maridos. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 869.3 22
Summary: 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 husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC AMAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001141507

Translation of: Dona Flor e seus dois maridos.

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 husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.

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