Yasmina traboulsi biography for kids

As much of my reading, this too came into my hands through my perennial snooping into JK's lists.

Les Enfants De La Place Book By Yasmina Traboulsi, ('tp ...

Thus, I feel compelled to cut-and-paste his review here as it does better justice to the book than I can muster. (Except for the reference to the City of God....)
"Starts off as the expected Jorge Amado pastiche with the obligatory " oh what an- eccentric-cast-of-characters" : the seven year old boy who must fend for his family, the aging prostitute, the ever stoic priest etc.

But then it turns into City of God. The violent (literally) change in tone reminded me of how the annoying whimsical opening to "Life of Pi" gave no warning of what was to come. The Pelourinho (main square and environs in Salvador de Bahia) operates as the shire to the twin Mordors of Rio and Sao Paulo.

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Traboulsi does a very good job of turning up the pacing when the protagonists leave Bahia. However the book did get me wondering if every intelligent writer (or filmmaker) w Les Enfants De La Place Book By Yasmina Traboulsi, ('tp ... FUNO