In another novel set here, the title character battles to retrieve an amulet from a giant that once belonged to his beloved, CÃ­, after being expelled from his village along with his brother JiquÃª for accidentally killing his mother.
In one novel set in this country, Cirino, a young doctor who learns from a book written by Chernoviz, is unable to pursue his love interest because she is promised to a wealthier man. In another novel set here, the title character battles to retrieve an amulet from a giant that once belonged to his beloved, CÃ­, after being expelled from his village along with his brother JiquÃª for accidentally killing his mother. The home of the author of InocÃªncia, the Viscount of Taunay, and the author of (*) MacunaÃ­ma, MÃ¡rio de Andrade, it is also the setting of a novel whose narrator rivals Lobo Neves for the affections of VirgÃ­lia. That novel's protagonist meets up with an old classmate, Quincas Borba, in a narration of his life story that begins with his death. For 10 points, name this country home to the creator of Bras Cubas, Joaquim Machado de Assis.
In one novel set in this country, Cirino, a young doctor who learns from a book written by Chernoviz, is unable to pursue his love interest because she is promised to a wealthier man.
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