Clara dos Anjos
Original title: Clara dos Anjos (Portuguese)
Credits: Lima Barreto (author)
Summary
Clara, a sheltered girl in a modest family of the Rio de Janeiro suburbs, grows up among serenades and respectable neighbours, while Cassi Jones, a guitar-playing young man with a reputation, takes notice of her. Lima Barreto's last novel is a plain and angry picture of the lives of poor black and mixed-race families in the city. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Written by claude-haiku-5-5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
English translation: all 10 published chapters are available.