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Bezig met laden... Crooked Plow (2019)door Itamar Vieira Junior
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 23. Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior OPD: 2018, translation: from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz (2023) format: 276-page paperback acquired: Library loan read: Apr 13-19 time reading: 8:58, 2.0 mpp rating: 4 genre/style: contemporary fiction theme: Booker 2024 locations: Bahia, Brazil about the author: Brazilian writer from born in Salvador, Bahia in 1979. He also grew up in Pernambuco and São Luís. He was the first recipient of the Milton Santos Scholarship, dedicated to low-income black youth. My 5th book from the International Booker longlist, and another on the shortlist. This is a nice novel and really popular on the Booker Prize-run Facebook Booker Prize Book Club. It's the story of the descendants of Brazilian slaves, focused on two sisters in a tenant farm family, children of a healer, and connected through the accident with a knife that leaves them sharing one tongue. As a reader, I first appreciated the elegant language of one sister, who tells how the sisters now speak as one. Then the other sister speaks, and the language becomes more practical without changing the book's tone. Through both we learn about their community, and their father, a traditional healer who becomes possessed by an African-originated encantada, a female spirit, on the festival for St. Barbara. These are the descendants of Brazilian slaves who continued to work farms as unpaid tenant farmers, working for no pay. They could build mud houses, and only mud houses, and raise their own food, but got nothing else from the crops they worked. Generation changes mean many things, including gratitude for work turning to resentment towards profit-hungry absent landlords as lives come to nothing. But what maybe makes this book special, other than its suite of characters, including the sisters who share one tongue, is the mythology - the mixture of African spirits, here "encantados", with Catholic mythologies and sainted martyrs. Of course, these, too, fade with the generations. What I didn't know while reading was the modern story of Quilombos. Quilombos were communities of free black escaped slaves in Brazil, and now are their descendants. Making up a small population, they are a centerpiece in Brazilian politics. Lula da Silva, president 2003-2010, was a more leftwing president, fronted the rights of Quilombos. Whereas Jair Bolsonaro, president 2019-2022, a right-wing extremist, prominently singled out Quilombos in 2017 as lazy, spurring on, Trump-like, his racist base. This book was published in 2018 in Brazil, but only translated to English last year. I'm not quite as enthused as some on this novel. There is an unoriginality to the language in translation, and maybe the agenda simplifies things a little. But it rewards, and the encantados are fascinating. Worth a read. 2024 https://www.librarything.com/topic/358760#8515201 It is striking how similar the Black experience in Brazil mirrors that of the USA. This is quite a story, filled with themes of strong ties to family and the land. The characters are vividly realized and the plot paints a compelling picture of the lives of tenant farmers following the abolition of slavery in Brazil. The knife becomes a powerful symbol of severing the ties of racism, oppression and misogyny. Um texto épico e lírico, realista e mágico que revela, para além de sua trama, um poderoso elemento de insubordinação social. Vencedor do prêmio Leya 2018. Nas profundezas do sertão baiano, as irmãs Bibiana e Belonísia encontram uma velha e misteriosa faca na mala guardada sob a cama da avó. Ocorre então um acidente. E para sempre suas vidas estarão ligadas ― a ponto de uma precisar ser a voz da outra. Numa trama conduzida com maestria e com uma prosa melodiosa, o romance conta uma história de vida e morte, de combate e redenção. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Deep 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 masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, and political struggle"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The struggles of these people are beyond imagining, but the strength, solidarity, love, and depth of feeling is so well portrayed. Catholicism and ancient believes brought from Africa blend together in ceremonies, healing potions, and beliefs. The father of the girls, is a healer, good to his family, beloved by the community of Agra Nigra but lives a hard life working the land
There are terrible things that happen in the book but all is told with so much respect for the people. The language, a sort of magical realism, that works so well. Loved the book. ( )