Cover of Jorge Amado's novel TEREZA BATISTA: HOME FROM THE WARS shows a beautiful young woman with dark hair. She wears an off-the-shoulder floral blouse; a glass half full of cachaça rests before her.
The round prodigy of a mulatto girl called Paulina the Scuffler or Paulina the Brawler had once been crowned Queen of the Carnival by the revelers of the Euterpe's Marionettes Carnival Club and paraded through the city streets, covered with sequins, on their leading float.
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