Books by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Child of the Dark
by Carolina Maria de Jesus
This really marked the first time the voice of the Brazilian lower class, the oppressed, was heard. It gave Brazilian readers a glimpse into a world that was all around them but that they didn’t know or even think about. Carolina de Jesus lived in a favela, but she wrote simply and elegantly, so much so that people thought that it must have been polished by the journalist who found her.
Interviews where books by Carolina Maria de Jesus were recommended
The best books on Brazil, recommended by Larry Rohter
The former Rio de Janeiro bureau chief for the New York Times, Larry Rohter, discusses five books that explore the strain of tragedy lurking just beneath Brazil’s ‘happy’ image.
