Zorba the Brazilian

Author's name: Jorge Amado

Translated by: Mamdouh Adwan

In the Brazilian village of Bahia, Arshanjo spent his life as a simple man working as a messenger at a medical school. His closeness to his community and his struggle for social justice and advocacy for the poor led him to write four books about the lives of the Bahians. But for the Brazilian elite, who had never paid him any attention, it was enough for an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist to praise him and turn him into a propaganda symbol.

Amado navigates the worlds of the simple and marginalized in Brazil, championing them, mocking the fake capitalism of national identity, and the intellectual elites whose character has become superficiality.