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Now the director of a large architectural firm

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

Convicts and academics find themselves here

Blurring the lines between magical realism

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior Now the director of aDeep 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