Shop of Wonders

Jorge Amado — a writer who entered the legendary hundred best writers of the 20th century. He had many titles and honors, but the most important for Brazil sounded like this: «literary Pele». Amado named one of his most significant novels «Shop of Wonders». What is it about? About books, doctrines, theories, professors and street singers, about the Queen of Sheba, about the countess, about the she-devil without a tail; About how the poet-researcher became a lover-horned; About carnivals, street fights and other wonders, about blacks, mulattos and a Swedish woman who turned out to be a Finn; About the civil struggle of Pedro Archanjo and how the people seized the square; About talent and success, about the glory of the homeland «From the magical and real country...» The novel is written in the genre of magical realism and appeared before the most well-known work in this genre — «One Hundred Years of Solitude» by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.