3 books
Book One: “My Wonderful Orange Tree” by José Mauro de Vasconcelos, a work taught in Brazilian schools, and professors in French institutes advise their students to read it... It is an influential and humane work on the tongue of a five-year-old poet... A work that does not tell a fairy tale Not only the dreams of young people in Brazil, but also the adventures of the writer in his childhood, the adventures of the child who learned to read at the age of four without a teacher, the child who carries a bird in his heart and a demon in his head whispers to him ideas that will cause him to get into trouble with adults... This is a sweet novel, sweet sap A sweet orange fruit... A human novel that describes the innocence that a child's heart can carry, and introduces us to the poet's innate spirit... The story of a child who carries the blood of the indigenous people of Brazil, a child who steals a flower every morning from a rich person's garden for his teacher... while he wonders with the utmost Innocence: Didn't God give flowers to all people?
The second book: “Let's wake the sun up”: Ziza, the six-year-old with overflowing tenderness, pouring from the simple things around him, overlooking the world of adults with his dreams that shine from his wonderful orange tree, confusing their rules, searching in it for a caring hand, even if it is an illusion shiver on the page of a river Lonely, now estranged from his family at eleven, lonely, nostalgic, neatly dressed, clean and cool from loneliness, pulled like a chord between middle school and piano lessons. What weight can a world like this weigh on the shoulders of a child who slips into adolescence with memories of the dusty streets and alleys and the burning warmth that hovers where poverty dwells? How does this boy feel now that he is living in the home of a wealthy new family, in which he has transformed from a blue devil into an obedient angel? Will he remain in this way, when his new heart is speaking to him from within, lighting his isolation with the same flame of dreams, and waging his small battles, all the way to the first sting of love?
Book Three: “The Madman” It is difficult for us, as we read “The Madman,” not to evoke the story of the meek boy Zisa in “The Two Wonderful Orange Trees” and “Let’s Awaken the Sun,” and not to get involved in sympathizing with him, his stances, and his decisions, when he has become a twenty-year-old boy. As the boy "Ziza" or "Zai" did not give up the glow of his own dreams, he did not stop searching for a meaning for his life, and carving his personal adventures in a world hostile to him, until he became described as a vagabond.
Faced with family, teachers and pastors, Zai insisted on following his dream and searching for his happiness. It is a touching story from the most creative writings of José Mauro, which we rarely find an analogue in terms of the fascination of readers with it and the interest of critics in its artistic novelty because, quite simply, it touches the common human: love and dream.
