The Shop of Wonders

Jorge Amado - a writer who entered the legendary hundred best writers of the 20th century. He had many titles and honors, but the most important for Brazil was: "literary Pelé". Amado named one of his most significant novels "The... Shop of Wonders". What is it about?
About books, doctrines, theories, professors, and street singers, about the Queen of Sheba, about a countess, about a ibab (she-devil without a tail);
About how a poet-researcher became a lover-horned;
About carnivals, street fights, and other wonders, about blacks, mulattos, and a Swede (who turned out to be a Finn);
About the civil struggle of Pedro Arshanzho and how the people seized the square;
About talent and success, about the glory of the homeland
"From a magical and real country..."
The novel is written in the genre of magical realism and appeared before the most famous work in this genre - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.