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The Last Twist of the Knife Biographies "La Bâtarde is one ofBy Joo Almino Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ISBN: 9781943150625 Publication Date: 03 02 2021 After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Braslia to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazils northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved childhood obsessions, fantasies, traumas resurface, threatening to overwhelm his very sense of identity. Consumed with