Inferno
by Patricia Melo
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For eleven-year-old Kingie, there are lessons to be learned from drug trafficking. His first job is as a lookout, working from a strategic spot on the hillside slums of Rio. But as he grows older he realises that in order to survive you must also keep a close watch on yourself as well. In her powerful new novel, Patr cia Melo tells of Kingie's life of crime, of his poverty-ridden childhood, how he pursues his dreams and the way he learns to achieve leadership. In his uncertain world, chaos show more manifests itself as violence and deprivation, whether machine-gun fire, unwanted adolescent pregnancy, or the fraught relationships between servants and their employers. Kingie's path intersects with a network of stories of love, family, crime and power. The plot twists and turns through a compelling tale where rapid-fire language and a sharp sense of humour combine to make this shocking story of a man who would be king. show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- Inferno
- Original title
- Inferno
- Original publication date
- 2001
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
- LCC
- PQ9698.23 .E4625 .I64 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Brazil
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- 6 — English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
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