Captains of the sands / Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Colm TóibÍn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.

Contributor:

Rabassa, Gregory, translator.

Series:

Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

Capitães da areia. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Runaway children--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Fiction.

Runaway children.

Orphans--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Fiction.

Orphans.

Social conditions.

Brazil--Social conditions--20th century.

Brazil.

Bahia (Brazil : State)--Fiction.

Bahia (Brazil : State).

Brazil--Bahia (State).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 265 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2013.

Language Note:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Previously published: New York, N.Y. : Avon, ©1988.

Translated from Portuguese.

ISBN:

9780143106357

014310635X

OCLC:

795166266