by Jorge Amado · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420603902
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Captains of the Sands is a novel by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1937. The story follows the lives of a group of abandoned children struggling to survive on the streets of Salvador de Bahia. The novel is a moving portrait of poverty, social injustice, and human resilience. Through its characters, Amado explores themes such as friendship, loyalty, solidarity, and hope in the face of adversity. The work has been adapted for film and television, establishing itself as a classic of Latin American literature.
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.
