How good is Jorge Amado's language! Smooth and soft, melodious and strong. Each sentence, like a sea wave, covers you headlong with the salty life of distant lands. This book is like a poem without rhyme, like a song that is sung by the wives of sailors on the Brazilian coasts.

This poetry is the pearl of the book. She turns the simple and tragic stories from the life of Bahian sailors into a different perspective, revealing their fabulous meaning, while reality fades into the background. Poverty and hard work, the grief of wives whose husbands remained forever at sea - are the everyday difficulties of the people of the sea, but that is not what the book is about. The book is about the hope of these people for a miracle, and it ends with a miracle.

Recommended reading for poetry lovers, because it is impossible to call this novel prose.