Title: Capitães da Areia
First published: 1988
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.
Subjects: Brazilian fiction, Social conditions, Runaway children, Orphans, Fiction, Fiction, general, Brazil, fiction, Modern Literature, Translations, Portuguese fiction, Translations into English
Places: Salvador (Brazil), Brazil, Bahia (Brazil : State), Bahia (State)
Time periods: 1930s, 20th century
LC classification: PQ9697.A647 C373 1988