Captains of the Sands av Jorge Amado

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<p>A Brazilian<i> Lord of the Flies</i>, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.<br><br>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 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. <i>Captains of the Sands </i>captures the rich culture, vivid emotions, and wild landscape of Bahia with penetrating authenticity and brilliantly displays the genius of Brazil''s most acclaimed author.<br><br>JORGE AMADO (1912-2001), the son of a cocoa planter, was born in the Brazilian state of B