De Onde Eles Vêm

As one of the first students admitted through quotas, Joaquim enters a campus that does not want him, and slowly becomes aware of race and of himself. He has no parents and no job, his grandmother is ill and in his care, and money never lasts, but he holds on to the books he loves. It is the education of a reader, set in years when measures against inequality were treated as the problem.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

208 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Brazil, around 2000

First published

2024 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788535939378 (original)