Éramos Seis

Blurb

Éramos Seis is a 1943 Brazilian novel by Maria José Dupré about a struggling middle-class family in São Paulo. Praised by writer and critic Monteiro Lobato, it became a best-selling novel and was awarded the Raul Pompeia Prize for best work of 1943 by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Dupré published a sequel called Dona Lola in 1949.
Éramos Seis has been adapted as a telenovela four times, in 1958, 1967, 1977, and 1994.