Quarto de Despejo
Diário de uma Favelada
About this book
A first-hand account of life in the streets of Sao Paulo from 1955 to 1960, details the plight of an artist, writer and single mother of three children who, while living in a hovel, supported her family by digging through the garbage for paper and scraps to sell.
Subjects
- autobiography
- biography
- blacks
- brazil, biography
- childhood and youth
- cities and towns
- hn290.s33 j43 2003
- poor
- poor--brazil--são paulo
- poverty
- race relations
- rural conditions
- sao paulo (brazil)
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- women, biography