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City of God / Paulo Lins ; translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin

By:

Lins, Paolo, , 1958-

Contributor(s):

Entrekin, Alison

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Black Cat : Distributed by Publishers Group West , 2006.Edition: 1st American edDescription: vii, 431 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780802170101

Uniform titles:

Cidade de Deus . English

Subject(s):

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC LIN

LOC classification:

PQ9698.22.I574 C513 2006

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC LIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026603

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.

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