Child Of The Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus

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

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a Brazilian woman with only two years of schooling, was the single mother of three children. 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 alive, to stave off their ever-present hunger, Carolina scavenged for scraps of metal to sell and paper to write on. Her story is a witness to the life of the favelados-- prisoners of poverty, prey of the unscrupulous, and the breeders of revolution. 

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