Captains of the Sands
by Jorge Amado
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appears in About Brasil, Romance, and Fiction.
A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaThey 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 fifteenyearold ?Bullet,? the band?including a crafty liar named ?Legl...
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appears in About Brasil, Romance, and Fiction.
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