The discovery of America by the Turks
By: Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago
Contributors: Rabassa, Gregory
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9780143106982
Work titles: Descoberta da América pelos turcos
Description: 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.