Jorge Amado is known throughout the world as an unsurpassed singer of sunny Brazil. His books mix all the imaginable colors of a distant, hot country, where music sounds around the clock, poverty wages a constant war with wealth, and piety lives under the same roof with the most terrible vices. “Generals of the Sand Quarries” is a special novel, perhaps the most unusual, vibrant and famous of all Amadou’s works. It tells the story of a gang of street kids who spend the night on the sandy beaches of Bahia. They commit daring robberies, hide from the police and sacredly honor the unwritten laws of friendship.