Vasconcelos Jose Mauro - Mi Planta De Naranja Lima ✦

To read this book is to remember that children are not small adults. They are volcanoes of feeling living in a world of asphalt and rules. They speak to trees because no one else will listen. And when the tree is cut down, a piece of their soul is felled with it.

Then comes the second miracle: a Portuguese man named Manuel Valadares, “Portuga,” who becomes the father Zezé never had. He offers not money, but the revolutionary gift of kindness. Vasconcelos Jose Mauro - Mi planta de naranja lima

But Vasconcelos’s genius is his ability to find salvation in the smallest corners. Zezé teaches us that a child’s pain is immense, but so is a child’s capacity for magic. He transforms a skinny, neglected sweet orange tree in his backyard into a friend, a confidant, a living being he calls Minguinho . The tree listens. The tree does not hit him. The tree is the first piece of the universe that belongs only to him. To read this book is to remember that