Description
A reflective, unsparing memoir of youth, this work follows a boy growing up amid shifting family fortunes in a drought-stricken landscape where scarcity shapes every lesson. Told through the voice of an older man looking back on his younger self, it moves between lived memory and invention to capture the hazards of poverty, the limits of schooling, and the strange, uneven education that comes from hardship. As he watches his world—its routines, cruelties, and small mercies—he learns how imagination can both console and expose the truth. With Graciliano Ramos’s famously spare, unsentimental style, the book becomes a meditation on formation: how childhood is made from fear, discipline, and the stubborn desire to understand one’s place in the world.
Available Editions
paperback
London : P. Owen
Published Jan 1, 1979
186 pages
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Details
First Published
1945
Language
por
Translation
From: por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Childhood by Graciliano Ramos.