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Living by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old "Bullet," spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privilaged until public outcry demands their capture
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"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist." --"The New York Times"
"Brazil's leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world!" --"Newsweek"
Amado was writing to save his country s soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud. Colm Toibin, from the Introduction
"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist." The New York Times
Brazil s leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world! Newsweek
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"Amado was writing to save his country's soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud." --Colm Toibin, from the Introduction "Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."--The New York Times "Brazil's leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world!" --Newsweek
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"Brazil's leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world!" --"Newsweek"
Amado was writing to save his country s soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud. Colm Toibin, from the Introduction
"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist." The New York Times
Brazil s leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world! Newsweek
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"Amado was writing to save his country's soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud." --Colm Toibin, from the Introduction "Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."--The New York Times "Brazil's leading man of letters . . . Amado is adored around the world!" --Newsweek
Jorge Amado (1912-2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a National Book Award-winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right. Colm Toibin is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Costa Award-winning Brooklyn and the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize finalist The Master.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0380897180
- ISBN 13 9780380897186
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Facsimile Edition. 248 pages of fiction about a gang of runaway boys living in Bahia, Brazil. They call themselves `The Captains of the Sands '. Read more about : God's-Love's sloop. Also : Aracaju, temptation, modinhas, samba singers, Ogun, Loide Brasileiro Line, Gantois, Ze Ferret, Big Joao, and Father Jose Pedro. Gregory Rabassa did the translation fron the Portuguese original. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Colours bright, binding sound. Minimal wear and soiling. Store stamp verso front cover. VG reading copy. Quote (p.93) : " Father Jose Pedro had told him that all the beauty that fell and wrapperf the earth and men was a gift from God and it was necessary to thank God. Lollipop looked at the blue sky ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 012922
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CAPTAINS OF THE SANDS.
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 248 pp. First U.S. edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. Originally published in Brazil as "Capitães de araeias." Binding tight; wrappers age toned; lettering rubbed tail of spine; bottom edge soiled; otherwise a near fine copy. See additional images provided. Size: 20 x 13 cm. 0.0. Seller Inventory # 2929
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