by Paulo Lins
for the 2004 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives
in Brazil.
A Note on the Author
Paulo Lins was born in Rio de Janeiro and at age seven
moved to City of God, where he was raised. He
escaped the cycle of violence there to become an
internationally celebrated writer. He still lives in Rio.
First published in Brazil as Cidade de Deus by Editora Schwarcz Ltda in 1997
First published in Great Britain in 2006
This electronic edition published in October 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © 1997, 2002 by Paulo Lins
Translation copyright © 2006 by Alison Entrekin
The moral right of the author has been asserted
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eISBN: 978-1-40882-734-5
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