Title: El mundo herido
Description: "El Mundo Herido"  by author Armando Mendez Carrasco was first published in 1955 in Santiago Chile. This powerful novel describes the lives of a group of poor teenagers who lived in the poverty stricken hill of  the seaport of Valparaiso. Their adventures display the survival in an environment of hardship and extreme creativity. The book is now a historical window of Valparaiso in the 20's...
Subjects: youth, teenagers, poverty, hardship
Places: Valparaiso, Chile
Time periods: 1925-1935