{"product_id":"the-unedited-diaries-of-carolina-maria-de-jesus","title":"The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria De Jesus","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarolina Maria de Jesus book  Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room)  depicted the harsh life of the slums  but it also spoke of the authors pride in her blackness  her high moral standards  and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary  with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audulio Dantas  the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her  or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus daughter  recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one)  every word was de Jesus. But Dantas did \"create\" a different Carolina from the woman who coped with her harsh life by putting things down on paper. This book sets the record straight by providing detailed translations of de Jesus unedited diaries and explains why Brazilian elites were motivated to obscure her true personality and present her as something she was not. It is not only about the writer but about Brazil as recorded by her sarcastic pen. The diary entries in this book span from 1958 to 1966  five years beyond text previously known to exist. They show de Jesus as she was  preserving her Joycean stream-of-consciousness language and her pithy characterizations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965422170165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813525705","price":29.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813525709.jpg?v=1770496222","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-unedited-diaries-of-carolina-maria-de-jesus","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}