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Crooked Plow

Itamar Vieira Junior

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#2641 of 8,085 books · #389 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize (2024).

Crooked Plow was shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. 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.

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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-13
9781839766404
Topics
Family and sisterhoodSlavery's legacy and racial injusticeRural poverty and political struggle

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