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The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
- Title
- The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
- Author
- Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ9697.A647 D4713 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Rabassa, Gregory.
- Description
- xi, 77 p.; 20 cm.
- 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. 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Descoberta da América pelos turcos. English
- Penguin classics.
- Alternative Title
- Descoberta da América pelos turcos.
- Subject
- Muslims > Brazil > Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780143106982
- LCCN
- ^^2012022549
- OCLC
- 780480457
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library