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ISBN-10: 014310635X
ISBN-13: 9780143106357
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 06/25/2013
Dimensions: 7.71" L, 5.16" W, 0.78" H

Captains of the Sands

Translator: Gregory Rabassa
Introduction by: Colm Toibin

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Overview

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.

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"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

"Indispensable . . . if you want to feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador." –Itamar Vieira Junior, 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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Details

ISBN-10: 014310635X
ISBN-13: 9780143106357
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 06/25/2013
Dimensions: 7.71" L, 5.16" W, 0.78" H
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