Beyond All Pity

by Carolina Mariade Jesus (Author), David St . Clair (Translator)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.79

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $60.01

  Written on scraps of paper picked from the gutters, this is the raw, three-year old journal of a black Brazilian woman living in the slums of Sao Paulo, fighting each day for survival for herself and her three illegitimate children, each born of a different father. With fierce and stark simplicity she tells of her filthy house in the Favela , describes the hunger that invades every shack, driving her to hunt for paper and metal that brought just enough money to keep the family alive.