From: The New Leader | Date: March 7, 1988| Author: Rodman, Selden | COPYRIGHT 1988 American Labor Conference on International Affairs. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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By Jorge Amado Translated by Gregory Rabassa Bantam. 422 pp. $18.95.

ONCE UPON a time Jorge Amado was a Communist in good standing who spent his spare time defying the Brazilian military dictatorship and taking refuge from it in Moscow. It's too bad in a way that this has changed: Without any political bite, the erotic capers that have recently won him a measure of popularity in the United States are becoming predictable and repetitious.

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