by Jorge Amado · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499890463
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«Los pastores de la noche» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Debolsillo in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
The nocturnal life of San Salvador de Bahía comes alive through characters such as Captain Marítim, Tiberia, the wise madam of a brothel, and Beatriz, the famous fortune-teller. Amid loves, disappointments, wine and long conversations, Jorge Amado celebrates with humour and lyricism human fragility and the popular character of the city.
Paperback pocket edition within the Contemporánea collection. Translation from Portuguese by Basilio Losada Castro. Published by Debolsillo in 2012.
Reading for a general audience interested in contemporary fiction and twentieth-century Brazilian narrative.
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.
