Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior But after four years struggling

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

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatises the lives of feudal lords and their retainers

this volume gives a fascinating insight into Spanish and Latin American culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool

Working for the underground resistance

Convicts and academics find themselves here

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieria Junior But after four years strugglingDeep 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