{"product_id":"shepherds-in-the-night","title":"Shepherds in the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This work can be described tersely but not unfairly as a contribution to the debate on Brazilian self-definition, rendered ineffective by being cast in the form of pastoral. Amado's theme is the life of the Bahian poor: not the whole of their lives, for we seldom glimpse them at the back-breaking work that must occupy some of their waking hours, but their leisure life. His scene is laid in cheap brothels, alleys, shanties on the beaches, and in those hidden shrines on the mountainsides where the priests and priestesses of Ogun or Oxala exact their rites...Novels aren't any worse for having no 'social message'; but it's strange to find one which handles so much social material without taking it somewhere, only moving it from place to place.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Wain, New York Review of Books, 5\/4\/1967\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/jorge-amado-books\"\u003eJorge Amado\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Collins Harvill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780002710237\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Collins Harvill","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £2.07","offer_id":47907805495473,"sku":"SB-0002710234-C3","price":2.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0002710234.jpg?v=1789572444","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/shepherds-in-the-night","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}