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Crooked Plow
A Novel
- Translated by
- Johnny Lorenz
- Series -
- Verso Fiction
2023
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The prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'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 sister...
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Saving the Fire
A Novel
- Translated by
- Johnny Lorenz
- Series -
- Verso Fiction
2026
EN
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The highly anticipated new novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted international sensation Crooked PlowMoisés lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Moisés is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to be a witch and despised by the villagers. Luzia seeks protection from the monastery, where she gets a job as a laundress and where Moisés receives an ed...
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- Translated by
- Johnny Lorenz
2012
EN
A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured” by Olga Borelli. T...
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- Translated by
- Johnny Lorenz
2019
EN
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at lastSeven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus—are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with ...
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Crooked Plow
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Soneela Nankani
- Translated by
- Johnny Lorenz
Unabridged
9 hours 25 min
2024
EN
The prize-winning international bestseller—800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'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 Bah...
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