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Captains Of the Sands
[Paperback - 2013]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Ethnic Fiction
Additional Category: Literary Collections - Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143106357 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .227 | Dimensions: 5.14 x .83 x 7.7 inches

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A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia

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They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old “Bullet,” the band—including a crafty liar named “Legless,” the intellectual “Professor,” and the sexually precocious “Cat”—pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the “little criminals,” the fate of these children becomes a poignant, intensely moving drama of love and freedom in a shackled land.

Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

Jorge Amado was a modernist Brazilian writer. He remains one of the most read and translated Brazilian authors, second only to Paulo Coelho. In his style of fictional novelist, however, there is no parallel in Brazil. His work was further popularized by highly successful film and TV adaptations.He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. In 1994, his work was recognized with the Camões Prize, the most prestigious award in Portuguese literature.His literary work presents two distinct phases. In the first, there is a clear social critic and political focus, with works such asCaptains of the SandsandSea of Deathstanding out.In his more mature phase, he adopts an aspect of good-humored and sensual chronicler of his people, abandoning ideological motivations, with works such asGabriela, Clove and Cinnamon,The Double Death of Quincas Water-BrayandDona Flor and Her Two Husbands.

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