The Sandpit Generals. Amadu Zh.

Georges Amadu is an unsurpassed singer of Solar Brazil, the once scandalous author, and the now recognized classic, whose books are translated into fifty languages, are published in dozens of countries and became the basis for many films and series. He was born in Baia, the Brazilian state on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and there the action of his most famous novels - including the last novel of the “Bayan cycle” “Generals of Sand Careers”.

In Brazil, the Generals, for which the writer traveled to both America, is one of his most beloved books, in the rest of the world - one of the most famous (in 1971 Hall Bartlet filmed it, and the film became cult). The gang of “sandy quarries” - street children spending on the sandy beaches of Baia - makes impudent robberies, hides from the police, suffers and fun, cries and laughs, prays, dreams and sacredly honors the laws of friendship. In Brazil Georges Amadu, all conceivable colors are mixed, all the images of life and all possible fates; Here, music sounds around the clock, poverty is constantly fighting with wealth, piety gets along under the same roof with the most terrible vices, tears are interspersed with laughter, and cruel reality is easily adjacent to everyday magic.