The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
2012
PQ9697.A647 D4713 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
Author
Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
Uniform Title
Descoberta da América pelos turcos. English
ISBN
9780143106982 (pbk.)
0143106988 (pbk.)
0143106988 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xi, 77 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PQ9697.A647 D4713 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
869.3/41
Summary
Two Arab immigrants' "Turks" as Brazilians call them, arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier on the same ship in 1903, hoping to find a future. They rub shoulders with gunslingers and plantation owners, and also tangle with merchants, one of whom is desperate to marry off his impossible daughter. Thus ensues a farcical drama that produces, in a humorous twist, the unlikeliest of suitors in this whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew.
Added Author
Rabassa, Gregory.
Series
Penguin classics.
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