Capitães da Areia

by Jorge Leal Amado de Faria

First published 1937

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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.

Source: Open Library

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Author: Jorge Leal Amado de Faria
First published: 1937
Edition: Captains of the sands
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: ENG
ISBN-13: 9780143106357