Lins, Paolo  , 1958- <br/><br/>
City of God 
/ Paulo Lins ; translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - New York  : Black Cat  : Distributed by Publishers Group West  , 2006. 
 - vii, 431 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil's most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love-but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802170101 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006047663 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ9698.22.I574  / C513 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS FIC LIN