A01=Jorge Amado
Author_Jorge Amado
Category=FBA
Category=FYB
Category=FYT
collection
contemporary
contemporary fiction
eq_anthologies-novellas-short-stories
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
hitorical
literary fiction
paperback fiction
romantic fiction
short stories
short story
the camorra chronicles
top 10 fiction
top ten fiction
travel fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781846559761
- Weight: 405g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2015
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A big, brawling novel of waterfront life in Bahia, packed with cardsharpers, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and homeless Don Juans and Messalinas. It tells three interlinked and cumulating stories - about a marriage, a christening and a siege.
The things that happen in Shepherds of the Night are bound to happen once the cleverest of the Don Juans marries an out-of-town prostitute and tires of her; once an unmarried mother insists on a church christening for her fatherless child; and once a group of homeless Bahians erect their shacks on private property.
Jorge Amado was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century. His twenty-one novels are distinguished by a passionate concern for social justice and a tender but exuberant vision of the comedy of life. They have been translated into forty-six languages and published in sixty countries. He died in August 2001, aged 88.
