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Crooked Plow

A Novel

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Crooked Plow

By: Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz - translator
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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The prize-winning international bestseller—800,000 copies sold in Brazil

Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

'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.

©2018 Itamar Vieira Junior and Leya S.A.; Translation copyright 2023 by Johnny Lorenz (P)2024 Tantor Media Magical Realism World Literature Latin America Genre Fiction
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Soneela Nankani does a wonderful job narrating this book! Thank you! I loved your interpretation

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It brings a history to life in a poetic way, along with the richness of the culture and the power of the people. Moving and beautifully written. I highly recommend this book.

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The narration of this book was terrible. It was so bad and so not representative of the actual characters that I stopped listening and bought the book. Reading it made it 100% better. This book is a lovely story that deserves much better than a generic, emotionally robotic reading.

This recording does not accurately convey this story… buy the book instead

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