by Jorge Amado · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811650539
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«I turchi alla scoperta dell'America. Novelletta» is the short novel by Jorge Amado, published by Garzanti in paperback (104 pages, in Italian).
At the beginning of the 20th century, immigrants from the Middle East, called indiscriminately «the Turks», cross the Atlantic in search of fortune and love. With an ironic tone, Amado proposes that the true discovery of America was not made by Columbus or the Vikings, but by millions of anonymous immigrants who reached its shores seeking a better life.
The work belongs to the I coriandoli collection by Garzanti and was published in 1995.
It is a work for readers of historical fiction and ironic narrative, especially for those who follow Brazilian literature.
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.
