Ubirajara: Lenda Tupi
By José Martiniano de Alencar
Cover: Brazilian Landscape with Indigenous People (c. 1845) by Eduard Hildebrandt · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died before 1956)
Before the Europeans came, the young hunter Jaguarê sets out to prove himself a warrior and earn a new name. José de Alencar's short novel, told as a Tupi legend, follows him through combat, love and the rivalry between two nations. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.