I'm Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

by Carolina Maria de Jesus

In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil--and in the rest of the world--as it appeared in translations in fourteen languages. That diary of a poor black woman from a favela on the outskirts of S o Paulo became the best-selling book in Brazilian history. In it, Carolina Maria de Jesus chronicled her life as an unemployed, single parent of three children, eking out a precarious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803275994
• ISBN13: 9780803275997
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"