Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): Characters in this novel often discuss politics at the Model Stationary Store, and one party is known for holding Sunday tea dances. This work open with a poem in which a character forsakes roses, diamond earrings, and verses of Teodoro in favor of the Emperor's black beard, and each of this novel's four sections is prefaced with a poem about one of the town's four heroines. Colonel Jesuino Mendonca murders his wife Sinhazinha and her lover, the dentist Osmundo Pimentel, while Professor Josue publicly recites a poem for his love for Gloria. One character in this novel is an engineer who is hired to remove a sandbar and who has an affair with Malvina, the daughter of Melk Tavares, while the politician Ramiro Bastos is opposed by the progressive Mundinho Falcao. The title character of this novel is from the backlands and eventually marries the Syrian owner of the Vesuvius Bar, whom she impresses with her cooking and love making skills. Set in the city of Ilheus, for 10 points, identify this novel about the title girl's relationship with Nacib Saad, a work by Jorge Amado.
Output (English): Literature