Itamar Vieira Junior

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• Coração sem Medo

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  Jabuti 2026 · Shortlist

  Coração sem Medo

  AITitle translated by AI:“Fearless Heart”

  Itamar Vieira Junior · 46 when first published

  Novel · 336 pages · Family, Politics · Trilogia da terra, book 3

  AIAI-generated summary:A supermarket cashier in Salvador, Rita Preta, sets out to find her teenage son after he vanishes from their neighbourhood without a word.

• Salvar o Fogo

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  Jabuti 2024 · ★ Winner

  Saving the Fire

  Salvar o Fogo

  Itamar Vieira Junior · 44 when first published

  Novel · 304 pages · Family, Politics · Trilogia da terra, book 2

  AIAI-generated summary:Raised by his stern older sister Luzia, whom neighbours suspect of sorcery, a motherless boy grows up by a river in Bahia on land owned by an old monastery.

• Torto Arado

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  International Booker 2024 · Shortlist

  Crooked Plow

  Torto Arado

  Itamar Vieira Junior · 40 when first published

  Novel · 288 pages · Family, Politics · Trilogia da terra, book 1

  Translated by Johnny Lorenz

  AIAI-generated summary:Two little sisters in the backlands of Bahia open their grandmother's case and find a strange old blade; what happens next ties their lives together for good.

  Also: Jabuti 2020 ★ winner