After Life: An Ethnographic Novel

by Tobias Hecht

Book Overview

Bruna Ver ssimo, a youth from the hardscrabble streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, spoke with Tobias Hecht over the course of many years, reliving her early childhood in a raging and destitute home, her initiation into the world of prostitution at a time when her contemporaries had scarcely started school, and her coming of age against all odds.

Hecht had originally intended to write a biography of Ver ssimo. But with interviews ultimately spanning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337886
• ISBN13: 9780822337881
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"