# Shepherds Of The Night

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- Book: [Shepherds Of The Night](https://www.bookquiver.com/jorge-amado/shepherds-of-the-night) ([Shepherds Of The Night.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jorge-amado/shepherds-of-the-night.md))
- Authors: [Jorge Amado](https://www.bookquiver.com/jorge-amado)
- Publisher: harvill_press
- ISBN: 978-18-4655-976-1
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2015-05-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.