A powerful first-hand account of life in the streets of São Paulo from 1955 to 1960 that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Disappointing diary/book:
Not the best book about Brazil in general, probably a well not the best book about Favelas (though it does have a lot of stark, references about the social and corrupt political institutions bringing down the country). For starters the writer or author Carolina Maria De Jesus is a very ignorant, bitter, arrogant and hard woman exclamation on the bitter part. While she raises many question about what is causing the misery in the Favela and the country in general her messages gets lost amidst her... more info
Written word transforms dead end life:
The autobiographies of poor people from places far from the middle class worlds of rich countries never used to appear in book stores. It was indeed rare that such lives, however interesting, difficult, inspiring or depressing would ever show up on the shelves. But such is the modern world that nowadays we do get occasional chances to glimpse other lives, hear other voices. In "From the Land of Green Ghosts" we could read of the life of a member of the Padaung tribe in Burma; in "Notes from the Hyena's... more info
Triumph of the Human Spirit:
Caroline Maria de Jusus was born a[...] in poverty and went to only the second grade. She lived most of her adult life in poverty and her children were labeled [...]. She wanted to write and did. She became a writer of international reputation. Her book has been read by people around the world and in the United States. Her work stands with that of Victor Frankl in "MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING," and "BLACK ELK SPEAKS" an American Sioux, and with Frederick Douglass' NARRATIVE LIFE. CHILD OF THE DARK, is a... more info
Poverty in the world:
This book is great in the respect that it captures the experiences of someone living in extreme poverty and how she deals with the daily struggle of survival.
