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

    Child of the Dark: Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus - Mass Market Paperbound

    Child of the Dark: Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus - Mass Market Paperbound

    By Carolina Maria de Jesus

About Carolina Maria de Jesus Books

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.