The best known novel by Brazil's much loved author. Amado spins a satiric tale of a young cooking teacher in Salvador, Bahia, who is haunted by her first husband, a philandering ne'er do well who dropped dead at carnival. She's none too satisfied, either by her pedestrian second husband. All Amado's books are richly set in Bahia, this one includes his title character's delectable Afro-Bahian cooking.  (BZL35, $14.95)