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Captains of the Sands Paperback - 2013
by Jorge Amado; Gregory Rabassa (Translator); Introduction by Colm Toibin
Summary
A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
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.
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- Title Captains of the Sands
- Author Jorge Amado; Gregory Rabassa (Translator); Introduction by Colm Toibin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2013-06-25
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143106357 / 014310635X
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.71 x 5.16 x 0.78 in (19.58 x 13.11 x 1.98 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013000991
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
“Amado was writing to save his country’s soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud.” —Colm Tóibín, from the Introduction
"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."—The New York Times
"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."—The New York Times
“Brazil’s leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world!” —Newsweek
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