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A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
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.
Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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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.
Captains of the Sands captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil’s most acclaimed author.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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 García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.
Colm Tóibín 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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- ÉditeurAvon Books
- Date d'édition1988
- ISBN 10 0380897180
- ISBN 13 9780380897186
- ReliureBroché
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Captains of the Sands
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Avon, New York
(1988)
ISBN 10 : 0380897180
ISBN 13 : 9780380897186
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Soft cover
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 012922
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CAPTAINS OF THE SANDS.
Edité par
Avon,
(1988)
ISBN 10 : 0380897180
ISBN 13 : 9780380897186
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
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Quantité disponible : 1
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 2929
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