The Discovery of America by the Turks (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Amado, Jorge

 
9780143106982: The Discovery of America by the Turks (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143106988 ISBN 13: 9780143106982
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2012

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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-"Turks," as Brazilians call them-who arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier in 1903 and become involved in a merchant's farcical attempt to marry off his shrew of a daughter.

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Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (1912 - 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) in 1978. His work reflects the image of a mestizo Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. A cheerful and optimistic country and at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143106988
ISBN 13 
9780143106982
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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