Jorge Amado

The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

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A Penguin ClassicWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a champion drunk and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Wi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rabassa, Gregory (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-14-310636-4
EAN: 9780143106364
Produktnummer: 12473869
Verlag: Penguin Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 70 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.8 cm 86 g
Gewicht: 86
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.Rivka Galchen is one of the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 fiction writers and the author of the award-winning novel Atmospheric Disturbances. A contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, she lives in New York City.