Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus - Softcover

De Jesus, Carolina Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451529103 ISBN 13: 9780451529107

Publisher: Signet, 2003

Synopsis

The powerful firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.


Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine
Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair

About this title

About the Author

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a Brazilian woman with only two years of schooling, was the mother of three illegitimate children, each born of a different father. This story of her life in São Paulo stands as a vivid, incendiary social document. With stark simplicity, Carolina describes her squalid neighborhood, the favela, and tells how she lived hand to mouth. To keep herself and her children barely alive, to stave off their ever-present hunger, Carolina must scavenge for scraps of metal and paper in the gutter to sell. Her story is a witness to the vicious fights, the knifings, and the sordid sex of the favelados--prisoners of poverty, prey of the unscrupulous, and the breeders of revolution.

Robert M. Levine devoted his career to Brazilian social history. He chaired the National Committee on Brazilian Studies and the Columbia University Seminar on Brazil and was director of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami. His major books include Vale of Tears and Father of the Poor? Vargas and His Era.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451529103
• ISBN 13: 9780451529107
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224