Captains of the sands
By: Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Colm Toibin
Contributors: Rabassa, Gregory, translator
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780143106357
Subjects: Social conditions; Runaway children; Orphans; Fiction
Work titles: Capitães da areia
Description: 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: Translation from the Portuguese of: Capitães da areia.

Previously published: New York, N.Y. : Avon, c1988.

Translated from Portuguese.