Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

"...[U]nderneath all the fol-de-rols, Amado has a consistent view of life and makes it credible, which is perhaps the most we have a right to task of any writer, anything else he gives us being lagniappe. He is well inside the Latin tradition of taking pleasure, an particularly sensual pleasure, with intense seriousness....The unashamed lyricism of Amado's descriptions of physical pleasure reflects his engaging inverse Puritanism, his sense that hedonism is what makes life worth living...Amado, Jorge is the author of 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands', published 1977 under ISBN 9780380017966 and ISBN 0380017962.