أزقة الذاكرة | كونسيساو إيفاريستو

At the age of eight I got my first home job, the first in a long series...I would say that my relationship with literature began in the kitchens of the rich.”
Conceição Evaristo speaks of her childhood, cherishes her past, is proud of her career, overcoming the adversities and difficulties that she faced. She is confronted by a poor girl like her who was born in a favela, a Brazilian shantytown.
In this wonderful novel, Evaristo takes us to the environment in which she grew up, to the life of the favela, wishing to "record what she lived and keep the passerby forever", she writes with a heart full of love and sympathy. To those marginalized: “I write. I present a certificate. I write to celebrate the men, women, and children who piled up inside me, as did the favela huts I lived in.” She writes about poverty, injustice and misery, but also about courage, solidarity and harmonious coexistence that stands in the face of extreme poverty and exclusion, and gives one hope, the hope that never left Evaristo One moment in her life: "Driven by stubborn hope and early knowledge, the little girl I was knew that life could not be reduced to the few things it gave us." To overcome the circumstances of his life, no matter how difficult and harsh.