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Itamar Vieira Júnior: Crooked Plow (2023, Verso Books) 5 stars

Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique …

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5 stars

This was incredibly good. I was totally transported into a time and place that I know very little about, and feel changed by the experience, which is pretty much the crux of why I like reading.

Learning more about the author, his perspective on writing the book and how it intervenes in contemporary Brazilian politics has also been cool (one of many interesting interviews/articles: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-09/reading-to-coexist-a-conversation-with-itamar-vieira-junior-ana-laura-malmaceda/)