
My Sweet Orange Tree
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A worldwide classic of children's literature - a moving, life-affirming childhood story, finally available in English again
Meet Zeze¿ - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change...
My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature - never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to turkey, Poland to Thailand and in many other countries too.
José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, a labourer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Part One: At Christmas, Sometimes The Devil Child is Born
- Chapter One: The Discoverer of Things
- Chapter Two: A Certain Sweet-Orange Tree
- Chapter Three: The Lean Fingers of Poverty
- Chapter Four: The Little Bird, School and the Flower
- Last Chapter of Part One: 'In a Prison I Hope You Die'
- Part Two: When The Baby Jesus Appeared in All his Sadness
- Chapter One: Piggybacks
- Chapter Two: Making Friends
- Chapter Three: Conversations, Here and There
- Chapter Four: Two Memorable Beatings
- Chapter Five: A Strange, but Gentle, Request
- Chapter Six: Little by Little, Tenderness Is Born
- Chapter Seven: The Mangaratiba
- Chapter Eight: Many Are the Old Trees
- Last Chapter: Final Confession
- A Few Words from the Translator
- About the Publisher
- Copyright
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