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Crooked Plow (Paperback)
Itamar Viera JĂșnior; Translated by Johnny Lorenz
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R342
R309
Discovery Miles 3 090
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'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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The Besieged City (Paperback)
Clarice Lispector; Translated by Johnny Lorenz
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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin
'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest
way to see herself' Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective,
insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at
all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich
man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress,
Lucrecia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond
the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed
its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in
Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to
see and to be seen.
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