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...center of the plot, and the figurative protagonist, is the city of Bahia, capital of Brazil from...
...Bahia was an amoral place peopled by adventurers of all nationalities--the equivalent of the rough-and-tumble outlaw towns of the Old West or the exotic Casbah in Algiers. here, fortunes were won and lost and vice and corruption were the order of the day--hence the novel's title...
...story begins with the murder of the Captain-General of Bahia, a corrupt politician and the Governor's flunky. The Governor orders an investigation and detains suspects who are members of the aristocratic Ravasco family, his archrivals...
Consequently, Bahia is divided into factions: one supports the Governor, the other is in favor of the Ravascos. What follows is a melange of arrests, murders, machinations and comic ribaldry...
...rhythm -- lots of rhythm -- that accounts for the new craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest...