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Jorge Amado

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Captains of the Sands is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred orphans and abandoned children. They are seven to fifteen years old and live by begging, gambling and stealing, abandoned in the streets of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The lead character is Pedro …

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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a Brazilian novel, written by Jorge Amado in 1966 and published in English in 1969. The novel has been adapted into a 1976 film.