My Sweet Orange Tree

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My Sweet Orange Tree

By: José Mauro de Vasconcelos

Narrated by: Alfred Enoch

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A worldwide classic of children's literature—a moving, life-affirming childhood story, finally available in English again

Meet Zezé—Brazil’s naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with a bow-tie’, but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family’s poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change....

My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children’s literature—never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968; it has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and won the hearts of millions of young admirers from Korea to Turkey, Poland to Thailand and in many other countries, too.

José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, a labourer on a banana farm and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro.

Translated by Alison Entrekin.

José Mauro de VasconcelosAlfred EnochAudible Studios

Action & Adventure

Classics

Fiction

Growing Up

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Literature & Fiction

Heartfelt

Adventure

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This was the first Brazilian novel I've ever listened to, so it was a new experience for myself, but it had actually fantastic time listening to it! It was funny, entertaining and exciting as well! The narrator read brilliantly. Highly recommended!