num_pages: 431
description: The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from the Brazilian street. Cicade de Deus, the City of God, is one of Rio's most notorious slums. Yet it is also a place where samba rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. City of God is a sprawling, magnificently told epic about gang life in Rio's favelas, based on years of research and Pualo Lins's firsthand experience growing up in Cicade de Deus. A book that gives voice to the dispossessed of multiethnic Brazil, City of God will earn Paulo Lins more well-deserved international acclaim.
language: English
title: City of God
titlecomplete: City of God
characters: Ze Pequeno
genres: Drama, Mystery, Portuguese Literature, Brazil, Film, Fiction, Media Tie In, Novels, Literature, Crime
ratings_count: 1991
publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat