Contemporary Book Club: Crooked Plow

Join our monthly contemporary literary book club at Books on the Rise where we read the best new literary fiction and creative non-fiction!

This month we're reading CROOKED PLOW by Itamar Vieira Junior, shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize.

Tickets are £4.99, or free when you buy a copy of the book from Books on the Rise!

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The searing debut from one of the most exciting new voices in Brazilian fiction, Crooked Plow mines the country's troubled history of political oppression through the vivid and unforgettable story of two siblings from the country's poorest Afro-Brazilian farming community.

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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