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Most of his work is set in the northeast of the country. Two years later, the result was jubiaba, a novel whose main protagonist, antonio balduino, was. The couple only formally wed in 1978, by which time they were already grandparents. Jorge amado is an internationally acclaimed author whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages. In a writing career that spanned six decades, amado did more than.
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