Crooked Plow

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.

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An aching yet tender story of our origins of violence, of how we spend our lives trying to bloom love and care from them, and of the language and silence we need to fuel our tending. International Booker Prize 2024

Product details

• Authors: Itamar Vieira Junior, Itamar Vieira Júnior, Itamar Vieira Junior, Itamar Vieira Júnior, Itamar Viera Junior, Itamar Viera Júnior
• Assisted by: Johnny Lorenz (Translation), Lorenz Johnny (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781839766404
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-640-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Verso Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, FICTION / World Literature / Brazil, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Indigenous / General