Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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 Josu 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 Falco. Against the political backdrop, this novel discusses the title character's many affairs in the cacao-growing town of Ilhus, 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.
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Literature