Captains of the sand This book
counts the
history of a
group of
boys of street, that more than has as participant one hundred “delinquents” in the Bahia in the beginning of century XX, in its beginning counts on police news articles that tell errifying histories of these boys. This group counts on the affection of the name priest Jose Peter and of a saint mother whose name is Owner Nestles; In the first part “Under the sun of the moon, in old trapiche abandoned” Account isolated histories of its members mainly of you lead them; Peter Bullet the leader, pretty boy blond hair and a scar in the face, serves as father to the other boys, throughout history comes to discover that he is son of a syndical leader died during a strike, affiliated dry Return of Lampião that nourishes immense hatred for the authorities,
Professor who custom to read with voracity everything very that fell to it to the hands, being this talentoso: Cat that seems one malandro in miniature and finishes for conquering the Dalva prostitute; Without-legs, a lame boy who if dissimulates abandoned and is received by families for the final o steals them;
Great João as in the command, black
Boy of excellent heart; Dear-of-God, capoeirista that costuma to give lessons to some boys of the group, and pirulito that likes religion; The main one of this part is when the boys visit the carousel and when the smallpox kills one of them, exactly these counting on the aid of the Priest. The second part “Night of the great peace of the great peace of your eyes”, happens a historia of love when the girl Dora enters for the flock, this new personage cause the dispute between professor and Peter Bullet, however the heart of Dora is of Peter Bullet, these is pegos carrying through roberies and is punished in the reformatory and orphanage, the two if reencontram when they obtain to run away and if they love the light of moonlight; Dora soon after dies. The homossexualismo is one practises common in the group although the attempts of Peter Bullet in finishing with this. The third part shows to the outcome of history “Song of the Bahia, Song of the freedom” Professor goes for Rio De Janeiro and if it becomes reputation painter, Without-legs commits suicide not to be captured by the policy, Cat becomes malandro of truth, Pirulito becomes Frade, Dry Return it adheres to the group of lampião and turns cangaceiro the brabos, great João becomes marine, Dear-of-God continues being capoeirista and Peter Bullet becomes revolutionary Communist.
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