{"product_id":"crooked-plow-itamar-viera-junior","title":"Crooked Plow (Itamar Viera Júnior)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeep 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeralded 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eItamar Vieira Junior was born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1979. He holds a doctorate in Ethnic and African Studies. Before \u003ci\u003eCrooked Plow\u003c\/i\u003e, he published a collection of short stories entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Executioner's Prayer,\u003c\/i\u003e which was nominated for Brazil's biggest literary award, the Jabuti. \u003ci\u003eCrooked Plow \u003c\/i\u003ewon the prestigious 2018 LeYa Award in Portugal.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65898945708381,"sku":"K061829448","price":13.2,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/6182944800001A.jpg?v=1789179648","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/crooked-plow-itamar-viera-junior","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}