Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
by Jorge Amado
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appears in About Brasil, Romance, and Fiction.
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendona discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all...
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appears in About Brasil, Romance, and Fiction.
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