by Jorge Amado · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476696477
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This novel by Brazilian author Jorge Amado tells the story of a group of street children struggling to survive in the streets of Salvador de Bahia. Published in 1937, the work offers a raw and realistic look at the lives of these marginalized young people, while exalting their spirit of resistance and solidarity. 'Captains of the Sands' is a classic work of Latin American literature that invites reflection on poverty, childhood, and social justice.
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.
