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Viera Junior, Itamar

Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim'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.Translated by Johnny Lorenz.
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Viera Junior, Itamar

Arado torcido narra la historia de Bibiana y Belonísia y de su familia. De su indestructible y poderoso vínculo y de la relación que mantienen con el mundo. Con esta maravillosa novela, Itamar Vieira Junior nos abre una ventana que da directamente a la vida de los moradores de las haciendas del desconocido Brasil rural, a sus costumbres y sus creencias, y a su manera de habitar la tierra. Arado torcido es una historia inolvidable que conjuga con maestría la épica y la lírica, el realismo y la magia.
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