The Discovery of America by the Turks — Jorge Amado

For the first time in English: legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado's spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America -- published for the centennial of Amado's birth

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."