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Captains of the sands / Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Colm Tóibín.
- Title
- Captains of the sands / Jorge Amado ; translated by Gregory Rabassa ; introduction by Colm Tóibín.
- Author
- Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, [2013]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Rabassa, Gregory
- Description
- xii, 265 pages; 20 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Capitães da areia. English
- Penguin classics
- Alternative Title
- Capitães da areia.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction
- Romans.
- Note
- Previously published: New York, N.Y. : Avon, ©1988.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780143106357
- 014310635X
- LCCN
- ^^2013000991
- OCLC
- 795166266
- SCSB-12815800
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library