Those characters appear in the novels Jubiabá and Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon.
The two main characters take their names from Tristan and Iseult [IHZ- OYLT] in the 1994 John Updike novel named for this country. In a novel by an author from this country, a dead man who worked on a poultice to cure melancholy recounts his postumous memoirs. In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Angel Clare travels to this country after rejecting Tess. Characters in two novels of another author from this country include Baldo, who leaves his life as a circus boxer and eventually becomes a strike organizer, and Nacib Saad, the owner of a bar in Ilheus [IL-YAY-OOS]. Those characters appear in the novels Jubiabá and Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon. FTP, name this South American country whose authors include Jorge [ZHOR-ZHEY] Amado and Joaquim [ZHO-A-KEEM] Maria Machado de Assis.
The two main characters take their names from Tristan and Iseult [IHZ- OYLT] in the 1994 John Updike novel named for this country.
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