Viera Junior Itamar - Crooked Plow - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 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 this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region three generations after the abolition of slavery is at once fantastic and realist covering themes of family spirituality slavery and its aftermath and political struggle. Translated by Johnny Lorenz.
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