Gabriela, cloves and cinnamon. Amadu Zh.

Georges Amadu at the age of 23 became the largest novel by Brazil. He is called Brazilian Balzac and Brazilian Gogol. It is included in the hundreds of the best authors of the 20th century.

The novel "Gabriela" was released in Brazil in 1958 and produced the effect of an exploding bomb. For 2 weeks, 20,000 copies were sold, and 120,000 copies of the book for a year. For Brazil, the numbers are unprecedented. The book received 12 literary prizes and caused severe disputes, the delight of some and the complete rejection of others. In Russian, the novel was published in 1961, and according to Ilya Ehrenburg, the other Amadu “Gabriel is read with us without looking up from the book.”

for the Russian man, Georges Amadu itself is Brazil itself. Its nature, economics, culture, cooking, beliefs and holidays, but most importantly - its people, fellow countrymen of the writer, his heroes, his friends.

“There is no eternity that would be more important than man, more important than him Fate ”said Amadu.

“ Gabriela ” - a sunny novel. His main character is sincere, simple -minded, selfless, she loves life in all her manifestations. Gabriela, as the sun, gives the warmth of her heart to others. She is a song, joy and a holiday. She was loved not only in Brazil, but also in other countries. It was in Gabriel that Amadu revealed the soul of the Brazilian people. The special perception of the life of the Brazilians has become the affiliation of world literature, as well as the "mysterious Russian soul." In the Brazilians, joy lives from birth!