A young boy becomes friends with the artist in the apartment upstairs and tries hard to understand when his friend commits suicide.

• ISBN: 9780152563400
• Author: Nunes, Lygia Bojunga
• Illustrator: Pontiero, Giovanni
• Published: 1991 , San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1991.
• Themes: Art and artists, Death, Friendship, Suicide
• Descriptors: Brazil, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
• No. of pages: 85