Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior The Romance of the Three

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatises the lives of feudal lords and their retainers

Now the director of a large architectural firm

Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

But after four years struggling to conceive end in the loss of three babies at once

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior The Romance of the ThreeDeep 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