Let's wake up the sun

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Ziza, the child overflowing with tenderness that spills from the simple things around him, overlooking the adult world with his dreams that rise from his magnificent orange tree, bewildering their rules, searching within them for a gentle hand, even if it is an illusion trembling on the surface of a lonely river, here he is now, far from his family, at the age of eleven, alone, afflicted with longing, neatly dressed, clean and cold from solitude, taut like a string between middle school and piano lessons. What weight can such a world place on the shoulders of a child slipping into adolescence, burdened with memories of altered streets and alleys and the burning warmth that hovers where poverty dwells? How does this boy feel now that he lives in the house of a new, wealthy family? Has he transformed from a blue devil into an obedient angel? Will he remain so? Now that his new heart speaks to him from within, illuminating his solitude with the same flame of dreams, and fighting his small battles with him, until he experiences the first sting of love? Let's Wake the Sun, a novel by the Brazilian author José Mauro