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Book Title
Child of the Dark : the Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus
Publication Name
Child of the Dark
Title
Child of the Dark
Subtitle
The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus
ISBN-10
0451529103
EAN
9780451529107
ISBN
9780451529107
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Format
Uk- a Format Paperback
Release Year
2003
Release Date
07/10/2003
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
6.7in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz
Author
Carolina Maria De Jesus
Translator
David St. Clair
Contributor
David St. Clair (Translated by)
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
Topic
Women, Classics, Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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A powerful and gripping memoir depicting the harsh realities of life in the favelas of Brazil in the 1950s, and one woman's resilience in the face of poverty, racism, and social inequality. Living in poverty in a Brazilian favela, or "slum," Carolina tried to scrape together a living by collecting recyclables. Among the trash, she found notebooks and papers that she salvaged to write on, and she used these found papers to craft novels, poetry, plays, letters to authorities--as well as her own journal. In this stunning diary of perseverance in the face of adversity, violence, and starvation, Carolina Maria de Jesus offers a firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that, upon its first publication over 50 years ago, drew international attention to the plight of the poor. A unique historical account and a critical work in the canon of Afro-Brazilian literature, Child of the Dark offers an essential perspective on the realities and cruelties of life in a favela at the beginning of the "modernization" of the city of São Paulo. Its themes of struggles against marginalization, classism, and racism continue to resonate today. Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451529103
ISBN-13
9780451529107
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4457247

Product Key Features

Book Title
Child of the Dark : the Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus
Author
Carolina Maria De Jesus
Format
Uk- a Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Classics, Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
6.7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
4.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hn290.S33
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Edition Description
Anniversary
Edition Number
50
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 rarely matched essay on the meaning and feeling of hunger, degradation, and want. ( The New York Times Book Review ), "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 misrables , 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, "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 misrables , 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, "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
Afterword by
Levine, Robert M.
Dewey Decimal
306/.0981/61
Intended Audience
Trade

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