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Shepherds Of The Night

  • Imprint: Harvill Press

  • ISBN: 9781846559761

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 27mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 405g

  • RRP: £9.99

Shepherds Of The Night

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.

  • Imprint: Harvill Press

  • ISBN: 9781846559761

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 27mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 405g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Not only is Jorge Amado oneo f the greatest writers[...] he's also one of the most entertaining

    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • His books are on the grand scale, long, lavish, highly coloured, exuberant

    Times Literary Supplement

  • Amado is by turns realist, fantasical, episodic, direct, angry, humorous and, above all, characterful

    Scotsman

  • Amado's humour is fresh, innocent, and inventive, and his altogether delightful comedy...has been given an exceptionally good translation

    New Yorker

  • Jorge Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist

    New York Times

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About the Author

Jorge Amado

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.

Jorge Amado

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