My Sweet-orange Tree

An autobiographical story about the author's own childhood. Zeze is a precocious and adorable little boy. But his impoverished family can't bestow enough attention on him to understand that his pranks and mischief are results of innocent childhood imagination. Zeze becomes the easy target of his family's frustration, depriving him of the love and understanding he craves. Zeze turns to his own imagination and creates a wonderful world of his own in his mind and, in the process, discovers that the young sweet orange tree in his backyard can talk to him! Later, Zeze finds another friend in a kind, old Portuguese man. But the pain of living soon invades even this precious world of Zeze and he has to learn to give up innocence and to grow up ...