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Translated into English now for the first time, The Golden Harvest, in the realistic tradition of Europeans like Dickens and Balzac, is, simply put, a delight. Jorge Amado's first artistic period, ideologically committed, was concerned with class-struggle domination and the re-creation of social types from all segments of Brazilian society. Beginning with Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon in 1958, notwithstanding, he broke toward more magical, lighthearted constellations...