Clara dos Anjos
By Lima Barreto
Cover: A Caminho da Escola (1928), painting by Eliseu Visconti (1866–1944) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1944)
Clara, a sheltered girl in a modest family of the Rio de Janeiro suburbs, grows up among serenades and respectable neighbours, while Cassi Jones, a guitar-playing young man with a reputation, takes notice of her. Lima Barreto's last novel is a plain and angry picture of the lives of poor black and mixed-race families in the city.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.