Tieta
By: by Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby Merello ; [with a new introduction by Moacyr Scliar].
Contributors: Merello, Barbara Shelby.; Scliar, Moacyr.
Series: The Americas; Americas (Madison, Wis.)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 671
Description: Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Säo Paulo's highest political and financial circles-as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.--Back cover.