@article{455546, author = {Amado, Jorge, and Rabassa, Gregory.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455546}, title = {The discovery of America by the Turks /}, publisher = {Penguin Books,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {455546}, pages = {xi, 77 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2012}, }