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Viera Junior Itamar
Crooked Plow
Crooked Plow
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Description: Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'" Say something!" she demanded threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand. Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and momentarily mystified by its power decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a new masterpiece and the most important Brazilian novel of this century this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in the Brazil's poorest region three generations after the abolition of slavery in that country is at once fantastic and realist covering themes of family spirituality slavery and its aftermath and political struggle.
Title: Crooked Plow
Author(s): Viera Junior Itamar
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839766404
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/27/2023
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'" Say something!" she demanded threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand. Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and momentarily mystified by its power decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a new masterpiece and the most important Brazilian novel of this century this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in the Brazil's poorest region three generations after the abolition of slavery in that country is at once fantastic and realist covering themes of family spirituality slavery and its aftermath and political struggle.
Title: Crooked Plow
Author(s): Viera Junior Itamar
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839766404
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/27/2023
Series: Verso Fiction
Category: Fiction In Translation