by Jorge Amado · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440653246
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«De cómo los turcos descubrieron América» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Ediciones B in paperback (118 pages, in Spanish).
Social satire in which Jorge Amado narrates the arrival in Brazil of two Turkish immigrants, Jamil and Raduan, and the entanglements their presence unleashes in an unknown community. With humour and a critical eye, the novel addresses cultural clash, identity and the contradictions of Brazilian society.
Translation from Portuguese by Basilio Losada, with illustrations by Óscar Astromujoff. First edition 1995, in the Tiempos Modernos collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and twentieth-century Brazilian literature, especially those who appreciate social satire.
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
