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Quarto de despejo: Diário de uma favelada

Quarto de despejo: Diário de uma favelada is a book writing by Carolina Maria de Jesus and published on 1960. The book was translated for thirteen languages winning space at the world.

About the writer

Carolina Maria de Jesus was born at Minas Gerais state on 11 of March o f 1914 and she moved to Sao Paolo city on 1947. She studied only 2 years when she lived at Minas Gerais, but she Always like to read and some time after She started to write a diary talking about her life. On 1960, one jornalist visited the Canindé shantytown, place where Carolina Maria de Jesus lived, and he falling in love with the wirter and her book.

The book

At the book, the writer describes how is to live in a shantytown, places where poor people lives, at Sao Paolo City. Speaking about how is to live as garbage collector in a big city, looking for things to survive. Carolina Maria is a single mother of 3 children and to survive and to create all them, she divides working as a garbage collector of recyclable materials and as washerwoman, but sometimes, she couldn’t earn suficientt money to survive. Her life is to difficult but her Faith is too Strong and she bring her force of the religious. She Works all the time to bring food to her house therefore her children stay all the time alone and she is criticated by the neighboors about that and the fact that she doens’t have a husband. Worst that her hunger is the her chindren’s hunger, so all the time she fights to earn money to buy food. And it's like that talking about how to escape from the hunger, the violence, the misery and the poverty the book is constructed.