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Shepherds of the night / Jorge Amado

By:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, : Avon Books , 1978, c1966Description: 372 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0380754711

Subject(s):

Brazil -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC AMA

LOC classification:

PZ3.A478 Sh

Summary: Amado's theme is the life of the Bahian poor: not the whole of their lives, for we seldom glimpse them at the back-breaking work that must occupy some of their waking hours, but their leisure life. His scene is laid in cheap brothels, alleys, shanties on the beaches, and in those hidden shrines on the mountainsides where the priests and priestesses of Ogun or Oxala exact their rites...

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC AMA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		46126

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Translated version of "Pastores la Noite."

Amado's theme is the life of the Bahian poor: not the whole of their lives, for we seldom glimpse them at the back-breaking work that must occupy some of their waking hours, but their leisure life. His scene is laid in cheap brothels, alleys, shanties on the beaches, and in those hidden shrines on the mountainsides where the priests and priestesses of Ogun or Oxala exact their rites...

Translated from the Portuguese to English

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