Jorge Amado

The Discovery of America by the Turks

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A Penguin ClassicPublished 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of class… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rabassa, Gregory (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-101-60357-4
EAN: 9781101603574
Produktnummer: 17995576
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 180 KB

Über den Autor

Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.José Saramago (1922-2010) was a Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese writer. His many novels include All the Names and Blindness.