{"product_id":"captains-of-the-sands-isbn-9780143106357","title":"Captains of the Sands","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Brazilian \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThey 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptains of the Sands\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“Amado was writing to save his country’s soul. . . . The scenes where the captains of the sands manage to fool the rich of the city and get away with it would have made Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens proud.” —\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Indispensable . . . if you want to feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador.” —\u003cb\u003eItamar Vieira Junior, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brazil’s leading man of letters . . .  Amado is adored around the world!” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJorge Amado\u003c\/b\u003e (1912–2001) was born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, whose society he portrays in such acclaimed novels as \u003ci\u003eGabriela, Clove and Cinnamon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDona Flor and Her Two Husbands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Rabassa\u003c\/b\u003e (translator; 1922–2016) was a National Book Award–winning translator whose English-language versions of works by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Amado have become classics in their own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín \u003c\/b\u003e(introduction)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the bestselling author of numerous novels, including the Costa Award–winning \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn \u003c\/i\u003eand the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301058072805,"sku":"NP9780143106357","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143106357.jpg?v=1767723383","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/captains-of-the-sands-isbn-9780143106357","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}