by Jorge Amado · Distribuidora Record de Servicos de Imprensa SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788501005304
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Capitães da Areia is a novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1937. The story follows the lives of a group of abandoned children living on the streets of Salvador de Bahia. These children, known as the "Capitães da Areia", struggle to survive in a hostile environment, facing poverty, violence, and exploitation. The novel is a moving portrait of marginalized childhood and a social critique of the inequalities of Brazilian society.
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
