My Sweet Orange Tree - Softcover

José Mauro De Vasconcelos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782692452 ISBN 13: 9781782692454

Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books, 2019

Synopsis

Meet Zezé - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change...

My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature - never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to Turkey, Poland to Thailand and in many other countries too.

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Review:

'Evokes a childhood in warmer climes... Written with immense tenderness, My Sweet Orange Tree eschews simple nostalgia for a deeper, unsentimental portrait of a childhood... so sad it would be a hard-hearted reader who doesn't shed a tear... will appeal to adult readers as much as, perhaps even more than - any older child' -- Irish Times

'This is a story full of sorrowful tenderness. Little Zezé is so likeable and he will stay with me for ever' -- Cao Wenxuan, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize

'New readers, young and old, will delight in the beautifully bittersweet tale... A near-perfect child's-eye view of life, one that has the power to both warm and break hearts, whatever the age of the reader' -- The National

'Tender, joyful... It will suit thoughtful readers of 10-plus down to the ground' --Guardian

About the Author:

José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, as a labourer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1782692452
• ISBN 13: 9781782692454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192