Imprint: Harvill Press
Published: 18/05/2015
ISBN: 9781846559761
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 27mm x 135mm
Weight: 405g
RRP: £9.99
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
Published: 18/05/2015
ISBN: 9781846559761
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 27mm x 135mm
Weight: 405g
RRP: £9.99
Not only is Jorge Amado oneo f the greatest writers[...] he's also one of the most entertaining
His books are on the grand scale, long, lavish, highly coloured, exuberant
Amado is by turns realist, fantasical, episodic, direct, angry, humorous and, above all, characterful
Amado's humour is fresh, innocent, and inventive, and his altogether delightful comedy...has been given an exceptionally good translation
Jorge Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist