Contributions

  • Samuel Putnam - Translator

Publication

2013 - Penguin Classics

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Physical Format

Digital

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781101602928
  • ISBN-101101602929
  • LibraryThing157485
  • OCLC Control Number795168342
  • Open LibraryOL51689862M

Description

From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia. The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all—the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist—until it is too late—not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao "colonels"; and not Juca, whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle's harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Violent LandDigitalPenguin Classics2013-01-01

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