This novel recalls an incident in which a clerk known as The Tiger for his soccer prowess became involved in a gunfight over the pock-marked girl Joana, in the chapter "Of the Law of Concubines." When asked how to entice one character in this novel, Professor Josué says to write a ballad instead of 
This novel recalls an incident in which a clerk known as The Tiger for his soccer prowess became involved in a gunfight over the pock-marked girl Joana, in the chapter "Of the Law of Concubines." When asked how to entice one character in this novel, Professor Josué says to write a ballad instead of a sonnet, and this novel is in fact prefaced with a poem in rondeau form that praises "His beard a sheet of dreams, the Imperial beard." Hanging over the entire timespan of this novel is the shooting of the doctor Osmundo Pimentel and the doctor's lover by the woman's husband, who is imprisoned only at the end of the work after the regime of Ramiro Bastos and the other colonels is brought low by Mundinho Falcão. Against the political backdrop, this novel discusses the title character's many affairs in the cacao-growing town of Ilhéus, where that character works at the Vesuvius Bar run by Syrian-born Nacib Saad. For 10 points, name this book in which Nacib is enticed by the titular smell and skin color of the titular woman, written by Jorge Amado.
This novel recalls an incident in which a clerk known as The Tiger for his soccer prowess became involved in a gunfight over the pock-marked girl Joana, in the chapter "Of the Law of Concubines.
{Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon} [or {Gabriela, cravo e canela}]