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Crooked Plow

Itamar Vieira Junior

  • 280 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2019
  • 4 editions
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1 About this book

Crooked Plow (Portuguese: Torto Arado) is a novel by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior. It tells the story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, who experience a life-altering tragedy in childhood. The sisters live as tenant farmers with their family in Chapada Diamantina in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The novel won numerous literary awards.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: magical realism and a love story.

  • Magic realism
  • Domestic fiction
  • Romance
  • Accidents
  • Family life
  • Farmers
  • Sisters
  • Portuguese fiction

2 About Itamar Vieira Junior

Born 1979

Itamar Vieira Junior (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 1979) is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Salvador, Bahia. He has a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia. His short story collection A oração do carrasco (The Executioner's Prayer, 2017) was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura. His novel Torto Arado (Crooked Plow) won the Prêmio LeYa in 2018, the Prêmio Oceanos and the Prêmio Jabuti, both in 2020.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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