Resultado de búsqueda
The Discovery of America by the Turks. 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 ...
28 de ago. de 2012 · A Penguin Classic 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.
28 de ago. de 2012 · The central conceit of Jorge Amado's The Discovery of America by the Turks is that the American continent wasn't discovered by Europeans but rather by two Arabs carrying Turkish papers back in 1903. Audacious in its language and exuberance, Amado's novella revolves around the lives of obscure immigrants whose existence would never be inscribed in any official national history.
- Jorge Amado
The discovery of America by the Turks. Summary: 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.
As the preface explains, the road to publication for The Discovery of America by the Turks was a long and strange one. It began with an invitation to write a novel in commemoration of the five–hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s voyage to America.
The Discovery of America by the Turks is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1994 but not published in English until 2012. Amado tells how, in 1991, he was approached by an organization in Italy to write a story to celebrate the fifth centennial of the discovery of the American continent.
The Discovery of America by the Turks - Ebook written by Jorge Amado. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Discovery of America by the Turks.
