Capitães da Areia
Brazil, fiction
Runaway children
Translations
Modern Literature
Orphans
Translations into English
Social conditions
Fiction, general
Fiction
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 preco…
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