My Sweet Orange Tree: The Story of a Little Boy Who Discovered Pain - Couverture rigide

De Vasconcelos, Jose Mauro

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ISBN 10 : 1536203289 ISBN 13 : 9781536203288

Editeur : Candlewick Pr, 2019

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fifty years after its first publication, the multimillion-copy international bestseller is available again in English, sharing the heartbreaking tale of a gifted, mischievous, direly misunderstood boy growing up in Rio de Janeiro.

When the precocious Zeze grows up, he wants to be a poet in a bow tie. But for now he entertains himself playing clever pranks on the residents of his Rio de Janeiro shantytown, stunts for which his parents and siblings punish him soundly. Now that his father is out of work, the beatings have become harsher, and life has gotten bleaker. Zeze’s only solace comes from his time at school, his hours secretly spent singing with a Bahian street musician, or his time of refuge with his magical orange tree, which both listens and offers him sage advice. But finally, Zeze meets a real friend and his life begins to change — opening him up to both human tenderness and wrenching sorrow. Never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, My Sweet Orange Tree, inspired by the author’s own childhood, has been translated into many languages and has won the hearts of millions of young readers across the globe.

Biographie de l'auteur

José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920–1984) was a Brazilian writer who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, a laborer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of twenty-two. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel, My Sweet Orange Tree.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Candlewick Pr
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1536203289
• ISBN 13: 9781536203288
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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