City of God
by Paulo Lins
The Rio nobody puts on a postcard.
you want to understand a city by meeting the people the tourist economy was built to hide
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Paulo Lins grew up in Cidade de Deus, the housing project outside Rio built to relocate the poor and then forgotten. This novel is its history — the drug trade emerging from poverty, the gangs, the violence, the humanity running underneath all of it. Not a poverty narrative written from outside. A dispatch from inside, by someone who was there. The most important Brazilian novel almost nobody outside Brazil has read.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Brazil • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Brazilian author
- Themes
- Atrocity Unmasked
