Watch Antonia Thomas read an extract from Crooked Plow, the International Booker 2024-shortlisted novel written by by Itamar Vieira Junior and translated by Johnny Lorenz.

The story so far: 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.

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Directed by Charlotte Hamblin for Merman.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

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