by Jorge Amado · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420663944
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Captains of the Sands is a novel by the renowned Brazilian author Jorge Amado. Set in Salvador de Bahía, the story follows a gang of young delinquents living on the streets of the port. Through picaresque and tenderness, Amado explores themes of survival, solidarity, and the harsh reality of life on the streets. The novel intertwines lyricism and crudeness, offering a moving look at the lives of these marginalized children.
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.
