SOURCE: A review of A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 173-4.

In the following review, Vieira asserts that "by creating a compelling sense of narrative [in A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos Amado again proves himself to be a deft storyteller."]

Labeled a "small novel" by the author and written for the Quincentenary celebration (1492–1992), A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos was originally a project commissioned in 1991 by an Italian state public-relations agency for a volume of stories, dramatizing the "encounter" between the Old and the New World, by best-selling authors such as Norman Mailer, Carlos Fuentes, and Jorge Amado. Since the original project never came to fruition, the present book was completed prior to Amado's antimemoirs, Navegação de Cabotagem (1992), but only appeared in Brazil after published translations in French and Turkish. Inspired by characters from Amado's...