Written on scraps of paper picked from the gutters, this is the raw, three-year old journal of a black Brazilian woman living in the slums of Sao Paulo, fighting each day for survival for herself and her three illegitimate children, each born of a different father. With fierce and stark simplicity she tells of her filthy house in the "Favela", describes the hunger that invades every shack, driving her to hunt for paper and metal that brought just enough money to keep the family alive.
- ISBN10 1853830712
- ISBN13 9781853830716
- Publish Date 29 March 1990 (first published 6 August 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Earthscan Ltd
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English