Blame It on Bahia

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 2, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

THE WAR OF THE SAINTS

By Jorge Amado

Translated from the Portuguese

By Gregory Rabassa

Bantam. 357 pp. $22.95

READING a new Jorge Amado novel is like eating yet another Brazilian dinner. The ingredients are predictably pleasant: the beans, the rice, the palm oil, seafood, a zesty dash of lime. The novelty is all in the mix and the company. There's something stale about the execution this time, but you can hardly be surprised.

Amado has juggled the ingredients he uses in The War of the Saints more than 20 times before. This is the latest novel in a career that began in 1933, with ...

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