"what a beautiful sugar orange sapling this is! and there are no thorns. it is obvious from a distance that it is a sugar orange, which has a lot of personality. if i were your height, i wouldn't want anything else."
"but i wanted a big tree."
"think well, zezé. this is a young sapling. one day it will grow into a big tree. it will grow with you. you will get along well like two siblings. have you seen its branch? even if it has only one branch, it looks like a horse specially prepared for you to ride."
Considered a masterpiece of brazilian literature, "candy orange" by josé mauro de vasconcelos is a classic. zeze's story, brimming with poverty, pain, and hope, defies the limitations of the adult world with its boundless imagination, leaving a profound mark on the author's childhood.
Five-year-old zezé learns almost everything on his own: not only to play marbles and hang out with cars, but also to read and the tunes of street singers.if his closest secret friend is a candy orange sapling that listens to what they say and calls minguinho...
You can follow the adventures of zeze, the protagonist of sugar orange, as he grows up in the author's novels "let's wake the sun" and "delifişek."