Jorge Amado
Kastro Alves.
Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1963. Zhizn' zamechatel'nikh lyudei, 373. Translation by Yu. Kalugin, with translation of poems by A. Sipovich and an foreword by I. Terteryan. 236 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in gray cloth spine and illustrated paper-covered boards, with stamped black and white lettering to spine. Book displays light shefwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with vignettes and b&w photographic plates.
Russian-language biography of Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (1848-1871), a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. Brazilian author Jorge Amado (1912-2001) is considered one of the most important writers of 20th-century Latin American literature.