Teresa Batista, Cansada de Guerra
of Jorge Amado
Description
At thirteen Tereza is sold by her aunt to a ranch owner who treats her like a piece of property, and sexually abuses her. When caught in bed with her lover she defends herself against the ranch owner’s violence with a knife and ends up in jail. Freed by a long-time admirer, she eventually ends up in a brothel. Escaping from there she heads for Sergipe, where more troubles await her: she falls for a married man, and helps fight an outbreak of smallpox alongside the prostitutes of the small town of Buquim. She then moves to Salvador do Bahia, where she leads a movement of prostitutes, and institutes the so-called "closed-basket strike" on the night the American Navy comes to town. A happy ending is provided when her true love arrives at the church just in time to rescue her from a marriage of convenience.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 507 pages
- Publisher Losada
- Publication Date June 28th 1994
- First Publication 11/06/72
- Language Spanish
- ISBN 9789500340588
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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