Jorge Amado,Gregory Rabassa,JosÃ© Saramago
Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, ,The Discovery of America by the Turks, is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants-â€œTurks,â€ as Brazilians call them-who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchantâ€™s farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter.
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The Discovery of America by the Turks