Query: Novels set in Bahia or Brazilian crime novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Estação Carandiru
Sweat (novel)
Cacau (novel)
Tieta
Maria Bonita (novel)
City of God (Lins novel)
Captains of the Sands
The Golden Harvest
Tent of Miracles (novel)
Jubiabá
The War of the End of the World
Home Is the Sailor (novel)
Sea of Death
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Evidence from documents: Estação Carandiru: '''''Estação Carandiru''''' ("Carandiru Station") is a 1999 novel-memoir by Brazilian physician and AIDS specialist Drauzio Varella. The story is based on Varella's time as a physician volunteering at Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo from 1989 up to the 1992 massacre which left 111 inmates dead, but is made up of fictionalized incidents and characters.
Sweat (novel): Brazilian crime novels: '''''Sweat''''' (Portuguese: '''''Suor''''') is a Brazilian Modernist novel.
Novels set in Bahia: In 1928, at just sixteen, he took a small room in the Pelourinho (in Salvador, Bahia), where he could witness the daily lives of the men and women forced to live in cramped conditions.
Cacau (novel): The book tells the story of a Sergipano (inhabitant of Sergipe), who arrives in Ilhéus in search of work.
Tieta: '''''Tieta''''' (Portuguese: '''''Tieta do Agreste''''', lit. "''Tieta from Agreste''") is a novel written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977.
City of God (Lins novel): '''''City of God''''' () is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives in Cidade de Deus, a ''favela'' in Western Rio de Janeiro where Lins grew up. It is the only novel by Lins that has been published. It took Lins 10 years to complete the book. The novel was hailed by critics as one of the greatest works of contemporary Brazilian literature.
Captains of the Sands: The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Their ages range from seven to sixteen and they live by begging, gambling, stealing and burglary in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
The Golden Harvest: set in the cocoa-growing areas of the state of Bahia
Tent of Miracles (novel): with nothing but praise on his lips for a long-forgotten local Bahian writer and self-taught social scientist named Pedro Archanjo.
Jubiabá: Begun in 1934 in Conceição da Feira in Bahia, when Jorge Amado was 22, ''Jubiabá'' was completed in Rio de Janeiro the following year.
The War of the End of the World: In the midst of the economic decline — following drought and the end of slavery — in the province of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil, the poor of the backlands are attracted by the charismatic figure and simple religious teachings of Antonio Conselheiro, called "The Counselor", who preaches that the end of the world is imminent and that the political chaos that surrounds the collapse of the Empire of Brazil and its replacement by a republic is the work of the devil.
Home Is the Sailor (novel): '''''Home Is the Sailor''''' (, lit. "The old sailors or the long haul captain ") is a Brazilian modernist novel.
Sea of Death: ''Sea of Death''''' (Portuguese: '''''Mar Morto''''') is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado. Amado wrote the novel in response to his first arrest for "being a communist". The novel follows the lives of poor fishermen around Bahia, and their relationship with the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, especially the sea goddess Iemanjá. The novel's style and themes include many traits that characterize Amado's later work.
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell: '''''The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell''''' (''A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água'') is a 1959 Brazilian modernist novella by Jorge Amado. It was first published in the Brazilian magazine ''Senhor''. In 2012, it was republished in English as '''''The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray'''''.