| Tocaia Grande | |
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| Author(s) | Jorge Amado |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Publication date | 1984 |
Tocaia Grande is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1984.
The novel deals with the foundation of a community (the Tocaia Grande of the title, meaning "great ambuscade" in Portuguese), in a fertile area surrounded by large cocoa fazendas owned by "coronel" Boaventura. The ambush was held in the same place by Natario de Fonseca, a jagunço at the service of Boaventura, against the latter's enemies; in reward, Natario is given a small cocoa plantation near the hamlet, and subsequently helps the variegate Tocaia Grande community to grow, until it reaches the status of a town.
The other main characters of the novel are a Lebanese immigrant, Fadul, who owns the main store of Tocaia Grande and is celebrated for his will and physical strength; Castor de Abduim, a beautiful black hammersmith, whose companion, Diva, is killed by cholera; Bernarda, a young prostitute who becomes Natario's lover; and a group farmers from Sergipe, whose arrive starts a colourful mixing between their traditions with the Bahian ones of the first Tocaia Grande's inhabitants.
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