Captains of the Sands

Author: Jorge Amado
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B009NY2ICM

Captains of the Sands (Penguin Classics)

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
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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. Get Captains of the Sands literature books for free.
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.
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Captains of the Sands Free

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
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