Mi favorite novel it’s “Mi planta de Naranja Lima”. The writer is Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos. I read it when I was 15 years old and it’s makes me think a lot.
The novel is a autobiography about how mature and passes from childhood to be an adult from traumatic events for the small age protagonist.
The story is about the adventures of a Brazilian child name Zeze that tried to live in the middle of the favelas conflict in Bangu –
I love this book because a simple reading would make us think that the child receives punishment for his pranks, but see the environment in which grows helps to understand that violence it receives from their families is just the eco of a larger violence in different kinds.
The magic and fantasy of Zeze playing with his five years old brother Joseph, create a parallel world full o heroes and colors that makes you feel full of excitement and emotion contrasting with the sadness to read about child abuse and family violence.
