Captains of the Sands (Portuguese: Capitães da Areia) is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street...

ISBN 0-380-75478-9. Amado, Jorge translated by Gregory Rabassa (2013). Captains of the Sands (Postface). Penguin Classics. pp. 262–65. ISBN 978-0-14-310635-7...

a Postface to his book, Captains of the Sands, Amado wrote that Sweat was the third work in the six-novel cycle he called "The Bahian Novels" in which...

on the novel Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado. Melodious soundtracks were written by Dorival Caymmi. The film was not popular in the United States...

youth in freedom as a member of a gang of street kids, which anticipates Amado's later novel Captains of the Sands. Subsequently, he becomes a successful...

include: The Country of Carnival (O País do Carnaval, 1931) Cacau (1933) Sweat (Suor, 1934) Jubiabá (1935) Sea of Death (Mar Morto, 1936) Captains of the Sands...

Julian Richard Morley Sands (4 January 1958 – c. 13 January 2023) was an English actor. His break-out role was as George Emerson in A Room with a View...

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before...

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d'Água) is a 1959 Brazilian modernist novella by Jorge Amado. It was first published...

and cause of sleepless nights for her. The women of the town thought she was well rid of him. But after Vadinho's death, he remained the love of her life...

from the impoverished interior. The gap between the worlds of Nacib Saad and Gabriela make their romance a challenge to the unwritten rules of Ilhéus...

Tent of Miracles (Portuguese: Tenda dos Milagres) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1967 and published the following year...

English in 1992. The Golden Harvest is one of Amado's works set in the cocoa-growing areas of the state of Bahia and concerning the society that grew...

Alexandrino) The Return of the Caravels (As Naus) Osman Lins Avalovara (Avalovara) Manuel Mujica Lainez Bomarzo Jorge Amado Captains of the Sands (Capitães...

Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars is one of Jorge Amado's later novels. While his earlier work provided a left-wing criticism of the economic and environmental...

most of his novels, the action does not take place in the city of Salvador or in the cocoa growing areas around Ilheus. The hinterlands of the Northeast...

written by the Brazilian author Jorge Amado, published on August 17, 1977. Set in the 1970s, it narrates the return of Tieta to the remote village of Santana...

together with Suor the beginning of the development of Amado's project of a Proletarian novel, that would communicate the basics of communist thought....

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during...

called during the late 1930s and 1940s) under the fascist totalitarian regime of Getúlio Vargas. The story concerns the attempts of the Chief of National Security...

1984. The novel deals with the foundation of a community, Tocaia Grande ("big ambush" in Portuguese), in a fertile agricultural zone in the state of Bahia...

Shepherds of the Night (Portuguese: Os Pastores da Noite) is a Brazilian novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1964 and published in English in 1967...

come to support one side or the other. Dr. Virgilio Cabral, a lawyer, becomes an ally of da Silveira. Another is Captain João Magalhães, a professional...

permeate the author's work can already be seen, albeit in an embryonic form. The book is an account of the typical Brazilian intelligentsia of the 1920s...

The Discovery of America by the Turks (Portuguese: A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado...

ásperos tempos), Agony of Night (Agonia da noite) and Light at the End of the Tunnel (A luz no túnel). Together, the three books of the trilogy represent a...

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Gomes Batista in the mini-series Capitães de Areia, based on the book, Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado. After his debut in the mini-series, André...

ruas e mistérios de Salvador (Bahia of all-saints: a guide to the streets and mysteries of Salvador) is a book by the Brazilian writer, Jorge Amado, first...

The War of the Saints (Portuguese: O Sumiço da Santa) is a Brazilian Modernist novel by Jorge Amado first published in 1988. An English translation by...