In 1982 this Stalin Peace Prize winner publishes his only children's book, The Swallow and the Tom Cat.  A war between Colonel Horacio and the Badarós family is chronicled in his Bahia set first novel, The Violent Land, while a later novel is the allegorical Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell. In his best-known work, the young politically connected Mundinho Falcão struggles against the aging Colonel Ramiro Bastos to bring pr
In 1982 this Stalin Peace Prize winner publishes his only children's book, The Swallow and the Tom Cat.  A war between Colonel Horacio and the Badarós family is chronicled in his Bahia set first novel, The Violent Land, while a later novel is the allegorical Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell. In his best-known work, the young politically connected Mundinho Falcão struggles against the aging Colonel Ramiro Bastos to bring progress and modernity to rural Brazil. For 10 points-- name this author of Gabriela, Cloves, and Cinnamon.
In 1982 this Stalin Peace Prize winner publishes his only children's book, The Swallow and the Tom Cat.  
Jorge {Amado}