Itamar Vieira Junior

The author and translator tell us how the novel is an ode to the Brazilian countryside, their experience of working together, and how the musical aspect of language informed Crooked Plow’s translation

Set in Brazil’s poorest region, this is a tender yet gripping story of two sisters bound together by a history of violence

In Itamar Vieira Junior’s fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, an act of shuddering violence binds two sisters together forever