Ribeiro, Joao Ubaldo

New York. 1989. March 1989. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0060156228. Translated from the Portuguese by The Author. 504 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by William Graef. Jacket Illustration by Greg Ragland. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This vast and panoramic novel set in Brazil is at once a national epic, a family saga, a rich tapestry of life of generation upon generation covering nearly four hundred years from the arrival of the Portuguese to the present. In a strikingly diverse prose style, the novel recounts the lives and actions of a large and memorable cast of characters from all classes and races. Combining history. anecdote, and myth, An Invincible Memory ranges in tone and subject from the formality and pretense of the rich and powerful to the stark realities of the poor. Full and rich in its depiction of everything from battles to love stories to drawing room society to whaling to macumba ceremonies, the navel is unsparingly honest about the lives and actions of its many characters, bringing them vividly to life with humor, sympathy, and ultimate hope through victory and defeat, joy and sorrow, birth and death. A bestseller for nearly a year in Brazil, Ubaldo Ribeiro's novel is being published In England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Finland. Jorge Amado says: ‘I don't know of any Brazilian novel published in the last twenty years more beautifully written or more Important . altogether universal.' inventory #11640 ISBN: 0060156228.