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 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. JORGE AMADO (1912-2001), the son of a cocoa
planter, was born in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which he would
portray in more than twenty-five novels. His first novels,
published when he was still a teenager, dramatize the class
struggles of workers on Bahian cocoa plantations. Amado was later
exiled for his leftist politics, but his novels would always have a
strong political perspective. Not until Amado returned to Brazil in
the 1950s did he write his acclaimed novels Gabriela, Clove and
Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (the basis for the
successful film and Broadway musical of the same name), which
display a lighter, more comic approach than his overtly political
novels. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom
of the 1960s, Amado has had his work translated into more than
forty-five languages. GREGORY RABASSA is 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,
who worked as a journalist in Latin America in the 1980s, is the
author of the bestselling novels The Master, which was shortlisted
for the 2004 Booker Prize, and Brooklyn.
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