Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 24 days ago
Views - 3
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2003
Seller Description
Slight wear on spine, otherwise like new. ~~~~~~~~ "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."
Overview
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
ISBN: 9780451529107
Publisher Description
An uneducated Black woman exposes the squalid living conditions and savage human relationships that she experienced in a Brazilian slum.
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