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First published in Penguin Books 2012
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Copyright © Jorge Amado, 1994
Translation copyright © Gregory Rabassa, 2012
All rights reserved
Published in Portuguese under the title
A descoberta da America pelos turcos
by Editora Record,
Rio de Janeiro, 1994.
“A Certain Innocence” by José Saramago appears in this volume in a new translation by Gregory Rabassa. This selection is published in
The Notebook
by José Saramago, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Daniel Hahn, Verso (London, 2010). Copyright © José Saramago and Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon, 2008-2010. Published by arrangement with Verso.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Amado, Jorge, 1912–2001.
[Descoberta da América pelos turcos. English]
The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
p. cm.—(Penguin classics)
ISBN: 978-1-101-60357-4
I. Rabassa, Gregory. II. Title.
PQ9697.A647D4713 2012 2012022549
869.3’41—dc23
Printed in the United States of America
Set in Sabon
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Foreword
A Certain Innocence
For many years Jorge Amado tried and knew how to be the voice, the feeling, and the joy of Brazil. Few times will a writer succeed as well as he in becoming the mirror and the portrait of an entire people. An important part of the world of foreign readers came to know Brazil when they began to read Jorge Amado. And for many it was a surprise to discover in the books of Amado, along with the most transparent evidence, the complex heterogeneity, not only racial but also cultural, of Brazilian society. The generalized and stereotyped picture to which Brazil had been reduced, to the sum of white, black, mulatto, and Indian, was now being progressively corrected, albeit in an unequal way, by the dynamics of development in the multiple
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(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)
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Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
First published in Penguin Books 2012
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
Copyright © Jorge Amado, 1994
Translation copyright © Gregory Rabassa, 2012
All rights reserved
Published in Portuguese under the title
A descoberta da America pelos turcos
by Editora Record,
Rio de Janeiro, 1994.
“A Certain Innocence” by José Saramago appears in this volume in a new translation by Gregory Rabassa. This selection is published in
The Notebook
by José Saramago, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Daniel Hahn, Verso (London, 2010). Copyright © José Saramago and Editorial Caminho, SA, Lisbon, 2008-2010. Published by arrangement with Verso.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Amado, Jorge, 1912–2001.
[Descoberta da América pelos turcos. English]
The discovery of America by the Turks / Jorge Amado ; translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa ; foreword by José Saramago.
p. cm.—(Penguin classics)
ISBN: 978-1-101-60357-4
I. Rabassa, Gregory. II. Title.
PQ9697.A647D4713 2012 2012022549
869.3’41—dc23
Printed in the United States of America
Set in Sabon
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.
ALWAYS LEARNING
PEARSON
Foreword
A Certain Innocence
For many years Jorge Amado tried and knew how to be the voice, the feeling, and the joy of Brazil. Few times will a writer succeed as well as he in becoming the mirror and the portrait of an entire people. An important part of the world of foreign readers came to know Brazil when they began to read Jorge Amado. And for many it was a surprise to discover in the books of Amado, along with the most transparent evidence, the complex heterogeneity, not only racial but also cultural, of Brazilian society. The generalized and stereotyped picture to which Brazil had been reduced, to the sum of white, black, mulatto, and Indian, was now being progressively corrected, albeit in an unequal way, by the dynamics of development in the multiple
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