One review on 24 Jan 2026

First Published: 1923

Fiction

Crooked Plow

Author: Itamar Vieira Junior 

Summary: Descendants of freed african slaves still living in poverty and modern slavery on plantations in rural Brazil through the 20th Century with a cultural memory back to Africa

Publisher:
Verso
Original Language:
Portugese

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Date first read: Sat 24th Jan 2026

Format:   Kindle

Catalogued: 24th Jan 2026

Synopsis

Twin sisters as young girls (under 10) find a fine knife belonging to their grandmother. Tragedy ensures which scars their lives for the next 30+ years

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Cutural history holds the key

by rogerco on Sat 24th Jan 2026.

At first I wasn't sure what I was reading as it was so alien to me - what century are these events taking place in. And even more the puzzle of which twin is which adds to the feeling of disconnection

 
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