Violent Land

<b><b>From the great Brazilian author an exotic tale of greed madness and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia <p/>A Penguin Classic <p/></b></b>The siren song of the lush cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all--the adventurers the assassins the gamblers the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song but a song of greed madness and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist--until it is too late--not Margot the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao colonels; and not Juca whose ruthless quest to reap the jungle's harvest plants the seeds of his own destruction. <p/>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.