Shepherds of the Night

by Jorge Amado

Harriet De Onis (Translator)

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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.

  • ISBN10 0380754711
  • ISBN13 9780380754717
  • Publish Date 1 July 1988
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 April 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Avon Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language English