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2 de abr. de 2024 · With Crooked Plow longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, we spoke to its author and translator about their experience of working on the novel together – and their favourite books A Q&A with Itamar Vieira Junior and Johnny Lorenz, author and translator of Crooked Plow | The Booker Prizes
4 de abr. de 2024 · I liked hearing the word “plow” enunciated; it’s a strong, resonant word… But the sound that came from my mouth was an aberration, chaotic, as if the severed chunk of my tongue had been replaced by a hard-boiled egg. My voice was a crooked plow, deformed, penetrating the soil only to leave it infertile, ravaged, destroyed.
8 de abr. de 2024 · April 8, 2024April 7, 2024. ‘Crooked Plow’ by Itamar Vieira Junior (Review – IBP 2024, Number Nine) Time for yet another intercontinental flight on our International Booker Prizelonglist journey as we continue to rack up the air miles. This time we’re swapping rural Polandfor a plantation in Brazil, as we spend some time with an ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · Add to cart $19.95 $15.96. Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, Crooked Plow's unique blend of magic and social realism has won it three literary awards, global acclaim, and now, inclusion on the International Booker Prize's shortlist. A huge congratulations to Itamar Vieira Junior and translator, Johnny Lorenz.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Many critics have already seen Hit Man and have been singing its praises in reviews. As of April 18, Hit Man has an impressive 96% "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes. ... It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) Slacker (1990) Dazed and Confused (1993) Before Sunrise (1995) SubUrbia (1996) The Newton Boys (1998) Waking ...
18 de abr. de 2024 · The pros and cons of learning a language through reading. Pros. Cons. You’ll learn loads of vocabulary – you’ll learn so much, you’ll see how words are used in context. Tedious to stop and look up words. Learn to use words in context. You’ll spend a long time not understanding anything that happens in the books.
9 de abr. de 2024 · Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. How would you summarise this book in a sentence to encourage readers to pick it up? Kairos is a richly textured evocation of a tormented love affair in the dying years of East Germany.In luminous prose, Erpenbeck fully exposes the complexity of the passionate connection between a 19-year old student and a much older writer.
