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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus Mass market paperbound - 2003
by Carolina Maria de Jesus; David St Clair (Translator); Afterword by Robert M. Levine
This new edition of the powerful firsthand account of life in the streets of Sao Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor includes eight pages of photos and a new Afterword.
Summary
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
Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine
Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair
First line
July 15, 1955 The birthday of my daughter Vera Eunice.
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- Title Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
- Author Carolina Maria de Jesus; David St Clair (Translator); Afterword by Robert M. Levine
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 7, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780451529107 / 0451529103
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 in (17.27 x 10.67 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Social conditions, Jesus, Carolina Maria de
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002037862
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.098
Media reviews
“Written between 1955 and 1960, Child of the Dark is the daily journal of an artist, a writer who, as the single mother of three young children, supports her family by picking through garbage for paper and scraps to sell. They live in a cardboard and wood-scrap shack in a Brazilian slum called the favelas, where there is no plumbing, and one public cold-water spigot is the only clean water source for several hundred people. Her journal documents the lives favelados are forced to live....Carolina de Jesus is a poet of intense dignity.”—500 Great Books by Women
“A haunting chronicle…a dramatic document of the dispossessed that both shocks and moves the reader.”—New York Herald Tribune
“It is a minor classic—because it is one of the very few books that have ever been written about the lowest and the poorest, les misérables, by one of themselves.”—Horizon
“It is both an ugly book and a touchingly beautiful book. It carries protest and it carries compassion. There is even bitter humor. As a fast-paced and strangely observant account of sheer misery, Child of the Dark is an immensely disturbing study of what can happen to a segment of the population of one of the world’s potentially wealthiest nations…a rarely matched essay on the meaning and feeling of hunger, degradation, and want.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A haunting chronicle…a dramatic document of the dispossessed that both shocks and moves the reader.”—New York Herald Tribune
“It is a minor classic—because it is one of the very few books that have ever been written about the lowest and the poorest, les misérables, by one of themselves.”—Horizon
“It is both an ugly book and a touchingly beautiful book. It carries protest and it carries compassion. There is even bitter humor. As a fast-paced and strangely observant account of sheer misery, Child of the Dark is an immensely disturbing study of what can happen to a segment of the population of one of the world’s potentially wealthiest nations…a rarely matched essay on the meaning and feeling of hunger, degradation, and want.”—The New York Times Book Review
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