Jorge Amadou is known worldwide as the consummate singer of sunny Brazil. His books mixed all the imaginable colors of a distant hot country, where music sounds around the clock, poverty leads a continuous war with wealth, and piety coexists under one roof with the most terrible vices. "Generals of Sand Pits" is a special novel, perhaps the most unusual, bright and famous of all Amadou's works. It tells the story of a gang of street children spending the night on the sandy beaches of Bahia. They commit daring robberies, hide from the police and sacredly honor the unwritten laws of friendship.