(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Jorge Amado
Author
Language
Español
Description
Escribo la historia de mi vida gracias a la iniciativa de mi hija Anacatalina. En un principio pensé que era una locura y que no tenía sentido redactarla, sobre todo porque me preguntaba a quién le interesaría leer mis memorias, pensando en los millones de biografías que existen en el mundo.
Pero de alguna manera, con todos los cambios que ha tenido mi vida y en conjunción con las grandes aventuras familiares, se logró una historia fascinante.
Desde...
Language
English
Description
A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the corpse around for a whole night of madness, drinking and hallucinating situations. Based on Jorge Amado novel.
Author
Language
English
Description
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;...
Author
Language
English
Description
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;...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands, ' a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old 'Bullet, ' the band-including a crafty liar named 'Legless, ' the intellectual 'Professor, ' and the sexually precocious 'Cat'-pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the 'little...
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, This Brazilian Comedy follows the strange events that befall Dona Flor after she is left a widow after the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing). Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Dona Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex. When she discovers that her new sex life is less than satisfying Dona Flor is visited...
Language
Arabic
Description
Scheherazade, tell me a story -- "A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues" -- www.imdb.com.
The paradise of the fallen angels --"A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the...