Synopsis
City of God is one of the most conflicting suburbs of Rio de Janeiro consolidated under the auspices of the State in the 60’s. The three stories that compose this novel begin at that time, when being only kids, the protagonists are Inferninho, Pardalzinho and Zé Miúdo. Throughout twenty years, their torn lives were immersed in the daily violence of the city because in the City of God, where everything happens so fast, soccer is played while carrying a gun in the pockets, and children’s entertainment alternates with the routine of robbery, murder and the bloody war among gangs of drug dealers. The only thing that reigns is the law of survival and revenge, and the only language everybody responds to is the one of bullets.

About the author
Paulo Lins was born in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro in 1958. In the early 80’s he was a member of the group “Cooperative of Poets,” and in 1986 he published his first book of poems. Also, he has been devoted to education, and in the present time he writes scripts for movies, directs television films and writes for several Brazilian magazines and newspapers.