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Extract from the Ilhus Travel Guides:
In literary terms
ILHUS
, Amado's birthplace, is the best-known town in Brazil, the setting for his most famous novel,
Gabriela, Cravo e Canela,
translated into English as "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon" - by far the most renowned Brazilian novel internationally. If you haven't heard of it before visiting Ilhus, you soon will; it seems that every other bar, hotel and restaurant is either named after the novel or one of its characters.
The town is on the coast 400km south of Salvador, where the local coastline is broken up by five rivers and a series of lagoons, bays and waterways. Much of...
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