Captains of the sands

Description:

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 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.

subjects: Brazilian fiction,  Social conditions,  Runaway children,  Orphans,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  Brazil, fiction,  Modern Literature,  Translations,  Portuguese fiction,  Translations into English

Places: Salvador (Brazil),  Brazil,  Bahia (Brazil : State),  Bahia (State)

Times: 1930s,  20th century