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  • Published: 18 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781846559761
  • Imprint: Harvill Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00

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.

  • Published: 18 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781846559761
  • Imprint: Harvill Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00

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.

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Praise for Shepherds Of The Night

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