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Jorge Amado

Captains of the Sands

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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 BahiaA Penguin ClassicsThey 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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rabassa, Gregory (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-101-60291-1
  • EAN: 9781101602911
  • Produktnummer: 17995519
  • Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 988 KB

Über den Autor


Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.Colm Tóibín is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Costa Award-winning Brooklyn and the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize finalist The Master.

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