The later novels of Machado de Assis -- notably Dom Casmurro and Esau and Jacob -- are well known in this country, but the earlier novels have never been translated. Here, inThe Hand and the Glove (th
The last of four novels that preceded Machado de Assis's famous trilogy of realistic masterpieces,Iaiá Garcia belongs to what critics have called the Brazilian author's "romantic" phase. But