Ebook {Epub PDF} Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado

Captains of the Sands - Ebook written by Jorge Amado. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Captains of the Sands. 9 rows ·  · Jorge Amado. Penguin, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. A Brazilian Lord of the 5/5(2).  · The "captains" of the title are a gang of abandoned children who live in a waterfront warehouse and survive by robbing the rich. The novel is clearly an early effort for Amado, with self-conscious effects (such as an imagined dialogue between a gang member and an icon he wants to steal) and a tendency to romanticize the young thieves and to.

Jorge Amado's novel Captains of the Sands concerns children living in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and forming gangs that engaged in petty crime. From the opening of the book: "Captains of the Sands," the name by which a group of assaulting and thieving children who infest our city is known. Captains of the Sands (Penguin Classics) - Kindle edition by Amado, Jorge, Toibin, Colm, Rabassa, Gregory. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Captains of the Sands (Penguin Classics). Captains of the Sand, or in its original, Capitaes da Areia, is a beautifully told story of my home town, JOrge Amado's home town, Salvador da Bahia. It paints the perfect portrait of what it is like living as street urchins in Salvador, therefore it is taught in schools all over Brazil, teaching about its socialist idealism.

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. Captains of the Sands (Portuguese: Capitães da Areia) is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street children. Their ages range from seven to sixteen and they live by begging, gambling, stealing and burglary in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The protagonist is Pedro Bala, the leader of the gang, and other important characters include the Professor, Boa-Vida, Barandão, João Grande and Sem-Pernas. A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia. A Penguin Classics. 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.