Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior Convicts and academics find themselves

Convicts and academics find themselves here

Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

Blurring the lines between magical realism

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatises the lives of feudal lords and their retainers

Pages: 340

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior Convicts and academics find themselvesDeep 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