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Captains of the sands / Jorge Amado

By:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001

Contributor(s):

Rabassa, Gregory

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Avon , c1988Description: 248 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0380897180

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC AMA

LOC classification:

PQ9697.A647 C373 1988

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.

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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		008220

Translation of: Capitães da areia.

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.

Translated from the Portuguese to English

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