A Mão e a Luva
By Machado de Assis
Cover: O Colar (1922), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
A young orphan, Guiomar, is raised in the house of her rich godmother in Rio de Janeiro and soon has three suitors of very different temper, each of whom thinks he is the one she should choose. Machado de Assis's second novel is a quiet comedy of calculation and feeling in which the title's hand and glove stand for a match of character.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.